Ostetricia e Ginecologia

Excessive Weight Gain during Pregnancy

We know that an excessive neonatal weight is often associated with obesity in adulthood and can imply an increase in mortality related to excessive body weight. Previous trials have analyzed the relation between weight gain in pregnant women and the newborn’s weight. In order to remedy this lack, some US researchers have examined a database including about 513,000 women – each with at least two children – to calculate the difference between maternal and neonatal weight gain in the two consecutive pregnancies for each woman.
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