Prevalence and impact of pre-pregnancy body mass index on pregnancy outcome: a cross-sectional study in Croatia.

This study was performed on a large national cohort of pregnant women and its results show that the majority of adverse perinatal outcomes present in obese women are also present among overweight women. Additional attention should be paid to women with a modest increase in BMI who present the majority of women with abnormal BMI.What are the implications of these findings for clinical practice and/or further research? Risks identified in this study must be acknowledged and taken into account when counselling and managing women before and during pregnancy and labour. Women must be encouraged throughout pregnancy to either gain weight or limit weight gain if they are in adverse BMI group. PMID: 32027189 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Category: OBGYN Tags: J Obstet Gynaecol Source Type: research