Obstetric and Neonatal Risks Among Obese Women Without Chronic Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether prepregnancy obesity is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes among women without chronic disease.

Methods

Singleton deliveries (N=112,309) among mothers without chronic diseases in the Consortium on Safe Labor, a retrospective U.S. cohort, were analyzed using Poisson regression with robust variance estimation. Relative risks and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) estimated perinatal risks in relation to prepregnancy obesity status adjusted for age, race-ethnicity, parity, insurance, smoking and alcohol use during pregnancy, and study site.

Results

Obstetric risks were variably (and mostly marginally) increased as body mass index (BMI) category and obesity class increased. In particular, the risk of gestational hypertensive disorders,

SUBMITTER: Kim SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4917420 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature