Obesity - risk factor for pregnant women

Pregnant women suffering from obesity, childbirth are a lot of complications, as established by experts. Another proof in favor of the statement that overweight mothers dangerous to her unborn child.

Recently, evidence of how mom's extra weight increases the risk of developing a number of diseases by her offspring, including infertility, heart disease and   obesity . Scientists from the University of Liverpool have found that suffering from overweight at the time of conception, the woman subsequently faced with several lots of complications during childbirth Than ladies who have a body mass index was in the normal range.

These data were obtained by studying the birth of nearly 30 thousand women over the past four years. Thus, three out of every ten pregnant women obesity a delay childbirth for 10 days or more. Over a third of pregnant women at risk had to artificially induce labor. This information is published in the journal British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

In addition, over 30% of women with overweight took during childbirth cesarean section. In a group of women with normal weight, those were not more than 25%. However, seven out of ten women with excess weight gave birth naturally, and the risk complications during childbirth   they did not differ from the normal risks of the ladies division.

And still - obesity   women is one of the major risk factors at birth, it has been shown in other studies. Back in 2007, researchers found that half of all women who die either during childbirth or shortly afterwards, suffered from excess weight.

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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