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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth BioMed Central Research article Open Access The effect of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy outcomes in urban care settings in Urmia-Iran 1 †2 †1,3 †4 Zahra Yekta* , Haleh Ayatollahi , Reza Porali and Azadeh Farzin Address: 1Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences,, Urmia, Iran, 2Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran, 3Department of Health Education, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran and 4University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH,USA Email: Zahra Yekta* - yekta42@; Haleh Ayatollahi - hayatollahi@; Reza Porali - reza2@; Azadeh Farzin - axf10@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 20 April 2006 Received: 25 July 2005 Accepted: 20 April 2006 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth2006, 6:15 doi:10.1186/1471-2393-6-15 This article is available from: /1471-2393/6/15 © 2006Yekta et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Nutritional status of women has been considered an important prog