Overweight and obese pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with higher hospital costs of childbirth in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women who have an overweight or obese BMI are more likely to experience pregnancy complications. However, little is known on the cost of childbirth in this group and no studies have been undertaken in England to date. The aim of this paper is therefore to investigate whether women with overweight and obese pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) incur higher average hospital costs of childbirth.

Methods

We employed data from 7564 women in the first wave of data collection of the Millennium Cohort Study. Using interval regression, we investigated the association between hospital costs of childbirth and pre-pregnancy BMI, fitting four models, progressively adjusting for additional potential confounders and mediators. Model 1 was a univariate model; model 2 adjusted for

SUBMITTER: Solmi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6011257 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature