Maternal Obesity and Risk of Preterm Delivery

IMPORTANCE Preterm birth is a leading cause of infant mortality, morbidity, and long-term disability, and these risks increase with decreasing gestational age. Obesity increases the risk of preterm delivery, but the associations between overweight and obesity and subtypes of preterm delivery are not...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2013-06, Vol.309 (22), p.2362-2370
Main Authors: Cnattingius, Sven, Villamor, Eduardo, Johansson, Stefan, Bonamy, Anna-Karin Edstedt, Persson, Martina, Wikström, Anna-Karin, Granath, Fredrik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Body Mass Index
Cohort Studies
Diseases of mother, fetus and pregnancy
Female
General aspects
Gestational Age
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Medical research
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Obesity
Obesity - classification
Obesity - epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Overweight - classification
Overweight - epidemiology
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications - epidemiology
Pregnancy Outcome
Pregnancy. Fetus. Placenta
Premature Birth - epidemiology
Premature labor
Registries - statistics & numerical data
Risk
Risk factors
Sweden - epidemiology
Weight
Young Adult
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