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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: pregnancy complications + overweight women + pregnancy  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)

Too Much, Too Little Pregnancy Weight Is Risky To Mom, Baby
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Increased risk of pregnancy-related complications such as cesarean deliveries and diabetes are of growing concern to public health officials. ...
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Pre-Pregnancy Diabetes Rates Have Doubled
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Extra Pounds During
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Reuters - May 5, 2008
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Gestational diabetes linked to pre-pregnancy weight
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Women who gained about 5 to 22 pounds per year during the 5 years prior to pregnancy were 2.5 times more likely to develop gestational diabetes, ...
CDC:Obesity During Pregnancy Increases Health Care Costs
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Pregnancy complications and outcomes among overweight and obese nulliparous women -
JM Baeten - American Journal of Public Health, 2001 - Am Public Health Assoc
... Health Association. JOURNAL ARTICLE. Pregnancy complications and outcomes
among overweight and obese nulliparous women. JM Baeten, EA ...

Overweight and pregnancy complications. -
B Abrams, J Parker - Int J Obes, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... only two of the studies had evaluated moderately overweight women separately ... is low,
studies relating overweight and pregnancy complications should include ...

[PDF] Obesity and pregnancy: complications and cost -
F Galtier-Dereure, C Boegner, J Bringer - Am J Clin Nutr, 2000 - ufv.br
... of surveys focused on pregnancy complications in overweight ... of prenatal care in
overweight women exceeded that ... We studied 435 pregnant women seen consecutively ...
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Maternal obesity and pregnancy outcome: a study of 287 213 pregnancies in London -
NJ Sebire, M Jolly, JP Harris, J Wadsworth, M … - International Journal of Obesity, 2001 - nature.com
... A comparison of pregnancy outcomes was made on the ... were significantly less likely
in the overweight groups. ... The basis of many of the complications is likely to ...

Pregnancy outcome and prepregnancy body mass index in 2459 glucose-tolerant Danish women. -
DM Jensen, P Damm, B Sorensen, L Molsted-Pedersen, … - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2003 - pt.wkhealth.com
... to investigate the relationship between pregnancy outcome and ... risk of hypertensive
complications, cesarean section ... increased in both overweight women (body mass ...

… and Overweight during Pregnancy: Prevalence, risks of pregnancy complications, and adverse pregnancy … -
S Cnattingius, M Lambe - Seminars in Perinatology, 2002 - Elsevier
... Women were categorized as lean or nor- mal (BMI --<24.9 kg/m2), overweight (BMI
25.0 ... Pregnancy complications are registered in the Birth Register using the ...

Weight excess before pregnancy: complications and cost. -
F Galtier-Dereure, F Montpeyroux, P Boulot, J … - Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... OBJECTIVE: To investigate the incidence of pregnancy complications and the cost
of ... One hundred and twelve pregnancies among 89 overweight women, compared with ...

Obstetric outcomes associated with increase in BMI category during pregnancy -
W Kabiru, B Denise Raynor - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2004 - Elsevier
... P = .004), and obese (P < .001) women, and cesarean ... in normal (P = .016) and overweight
(P = .003 ... it may have an important impact on pregnancy complications. ...

Maternal body weight development after pregnancy. -
A Ohlin, S Rossner - Int J Obes, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Women with a delta-weight of greater than or equal to 5 kg had, on average, a higher
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The course and outcome of pregnancy after ovarian electrocautery in women with polycystic ovarian … -
H GJONNAESS - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1989 - Blackwell Synergy
... Discussion Pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia and diabetes were relatively ...
not be related to the pre-pregnancy blood pressure ... Overweight, however. ...

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Overweight women at risk of pregnancy complications

Last Updated: 2007-07-30 16:43:17 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The heavier a woman is before pregnancy, the greater her risk of a range of pregnancy complications, a large study suggests.

Using data from more than 24,000 UK women who gave birth between 1976 and 2005, researchers found that the risk of problems, such as high blood pressure, pre-eclampsia and premature delivery climbed in tandem with a woman's pre-pregnancy weight.

The findings, published in the online journal BMC Public Health, add to evidence that obesity is a risk for mothers and newborns.

They also support the belief that all pregnancies in obese women should be considered "high risk," and managed accordingly, conclude the study authors, led by Dr. Sohinee Bhattacharya of Aberdeen Maternity Hospital.

The researchers found that compared with normal-weight women, obese women were 50 percent more likely to have post-delivery bleeding and twice as likely to deliver prematurely. They were also more likely to need an emergency C-section or to have labor induced.

Morbidly obese women had the highest risk of suffering pre-eclampsia, a potentially serious pregnancy complication marked by a sudden rise in blood pressure and kidney abnormalities.

In contrast, the study found that women who were underweight before pregnancy tended to have the lowest risk of all these complications. They were, however, more likely than normal-weight women to have an underweight newborn.

The results add to growing evidence of the importance of a mother's weight in pregnancy outcomes, according to Bhattacharya's team.

"The evidence for obesity as an important complication in pregnancy is mounting," the researchers write, it is time for physicians to be aware of these findings and start using them in their practice.

Besides good prenatal care, they note, this means counseling overweight women to lose weight before they become pregnant.

SOURCE: BMC Public Health, online July 24, 2007.

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