App Can Help Pregnant Women Achieve Healthy Weight Gain
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Researchers in Sweden have developed an app to help pregnant women achieve a healthy weight gain and lead a healthy lifestyle.
The app, titled ‘HealthyMoms’, was created by researchers from Linköping University in Sweden, who found that it contributed to pregnant women maintaining a better diet and therefore achieving a healthier weight gain during their pregnancy. Overweight or obese women also gained less weight during their pregnancy when they used the app.
The results from the evaluation of the app have been published in two scientific articles in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth ...