Vomiting in pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of low birth weight: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low birth weight has important short- and long-term health implications. Previously it has been shown that pregnancies affected by hyperemesis gravidarum in the mother are at higher risk of having low birth weight offspring. In this study we tested whether such risks are also evident with less severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.

Methods

One thousand two hundred thirty-eight women in the prospective Cambridge Baby Growth Study filled in pregnancy questionnaires which included questions relating to adverse effects of pregnancy and drugs taken during that time. Ordinal logistic regression models, adjusted for parity, ethnicity, marital and smoking status were used to relate the risk of giving birth to low birth weight (< 2.5 kg) babies to nausea and/or vomiting

SUBMITTER: Petry CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935997 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature