Maternal Obesity and its Short and Long Term Maternal and Infantile Effects.

Maternal Obesity and its Short and Long Term Maternal and Infantile Effects. J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol. 2015 Dec 18; Authors: Korkmaz L, Baştuğ O, Kurtoğlu S Abstract Obesity, in childhood or in adulthood, remains to be a global of health problem. The worldwide prevalence of obesity has increased in the last few recent decades, and consequently, the women of our time suffer more gestational problems than women in the past. The prevalence of obesity is greater in older women in older women than in younger ones, and in women with low educational level than in their counterparts with a higher level of education. Maternal obesity during pregnancy may increase congenital malformations and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Maternal obesity is associated with a decreased intention to breastfeed, decreased initiation of breastfeeding, and decreased duration of breastfeeding. We discuss the current epidemiological evidence for the association of maternal obesity with congenital structural neural tube and cardiac defects, fetal macrosomia that predisposes infants to birth injuries and to problems with physiological and metabolic transition, as well as potential for long-term effects secondary to prenatal and neonatal programming effects compounded by a redurtion in sustained breastfeeding. PMID: 26758575 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology - Category: Endocrinology Tags: J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol Source Type: research