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We investigated the relationship between time-varying maternal weight gain and gestational age at delivery in twin pregnancies and compared it with that in singletons delivered in the same study population. We used serial weight measurements abstracted from charts for twin and singleton pregnancies delivered during 1998\u20132013 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our exposure was time-varying weight gain z score, calculated using gestational age\u2013standardized and prepregnancy body mass index\u2013stratified twin- and singleton-specific charts, and our outcome was gestational age at delivery. Our analyses used a flexible extension of the Cox proportional hazards model that allowed for nonlinear and time-dependent effects. 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