Association of Maternal Obesity With Longitudinal Ultrasonographic Measures of Fetal Growth: Findings From the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies-Singletons.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the increasing prevalence of pregravid obesity, systematic evaluation of the association of maternal obesity with fetal growth trajectories is lacking.

Objective

To characterize differences in fetal growth trajectories between obese and nonobese pregnant women, and to identify the timing of any observed differences.

Design, setting, and participants

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Fetal Growth Studies-Singletons study enrolled cohorts of pregnant women at 12 US health care institutions. Obese women (with prepregnancy body mass index > 30) and nonobese women (prepregnancy body mass indexes, 19-29.9) without major chronic diseases were recruited between 8 weeks and 0 days' gestation and 13 weeks and

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808867 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature