Delivery outcomes in term births after bariatric surgery: Population-based matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity increases the risk of adverse delivery outcomes. Whether weight loss induced by bariatric surgery influences these risks remains to be determined. The objective was to investigate the risk of adverse delivery outcomes among post-surgery women compared with women without bariatric surgery history but with similar characteristics.

Methods and findings

We identified 801,443 singleton live-born term births (≥37 gestational weeks) in the Swedish Medical Birth Register between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2013, of which 1,929 were in women with a history of bariatric surgery and a pre-surgery weight available from the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry. For each post-surgery delivery, up to 5 control deliveries were matched by maternal pre-surgery BMI (earl

SUBMITTER: Stephansson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6157842 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature