Understanding maternal mortality in women with obesity and the role of care they receive: a national case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Obesity has significant implications for the health of pregnant women. However, few studies have quantified its association with maternal mortality or examined the relevant underlying causes and the role of care, although this remains the most severe maternal outcome. Our objectives were to quantify the risk of maternal death by prepregnancy body mass index and to determine whether obesity affected the quality of care of the women who died.

Desing

This is a national population-based case-control study in France. Cases were 364 maternal deaths from the 2007-2012 National Confidential Enquiry. Controls were 14,681 parturients from the nationally representative 2010 perinatal survey. We studied the association between categories of prepregnancy BMI and maternal death

SUBMITTER: Saucedo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7752756 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature