Obesity and Pregnant Women Outcomes
BMC Public Health
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Effect of Body Mass Index on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies
Sohinee Bhattacharya*1, Doris M Campbell2, William A Liston3 and Siladitya Bhattacharya2
Address: 1Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK, 2Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK and 3The Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Little France, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK Email: Sohinee Bhattacharya* - sohinee.bhattacharya@abdn.ac.uk; Doris M Campbell - d.m.campbell@abdn.ac.uk; William A Liston - Liston@btinternet.com; Siladitya Bhattacharya - s.bhattacharya@abdn.ac.uk * Corresponding author
Published: 24 July 2007 BMC Public Health 2007, 7:168 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-168
Received: 15 March 2007 Accepted: 24 July 2007
This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/168 © 2007 Bhattacharya et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Background: The increasing prevalence of obesity in young women is a major public health concern. These trends have a major impact on pregnancy outcomes in these women, which have been documented by several researchers. In a population based cohort study, using routinely collected data, this paper examines the effect of increasing Body Mass Index (BMI) on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study, based on all nulliparous women delivering singleton babies in Aberdeen between 1976 and 2005. Women were categorized into five groups –
Research article
BioMed Central
Open Access
Effect of Body Mass Index on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies
Sohinee Bhattacharya*1, Doris M Campbell2, William A Liston3 and Siladitya Bhattacharya2
Address: 1Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK, 2Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK and 3The Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh – Little France, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK Email: Sohinee Bhattacharya* - sohinee.bhattacharya@abdn.ac.uk; Doris M Campbell - d.m.campbell@abdn.ac.uk; William A Liston - Liston@btinternet.com; Siladitya Bhattacharya - s.bhattacharya@abdn.ac.uk * Corresponding author
Published: 24 July 2007 BMC Public Health 2007, 7:168 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-168
Received: 15 March 2007 Accepted: 24 July 2007
This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/168 © 2007 Bhattacharya et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Background: The increasing prevalence of obesity in young women is a major public health concern. These trends have a major impact on pregnancy outcomes in these women, which have been documented by several researchers. In a population based cohort study, using routinely collected data, this paper examines the effect of increasing Body Mass Index (BMI) on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study, based on all nulliparous women delivering singleton babies in Aberdeen between 1976 and 2005. Women were categorized into five groups –