Publication: Maternal Obesity and its Short- and Long-Term Maternal and Infantile Effects
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2016-06-01T00:00:00Z
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KORKMAZ, LEVENT
Baştuğ, Osman
Kurtoğlu, Selim
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Obesity, in childhood or in adulthood, remains to be a global health problem. The worldwide prevalence of obesity has increased in the last few 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 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 complications secondary to prenatal and neonatal programming effects compounded by a reduction in sustained breastfeeding.
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KORKMAZ L., Baştuğ O., Kurtoğlu S., -Maternal Obesity and its Short- and Long-Term Maternal and Infantile Effects-, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL RESEARCH IN PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY, cilt.8, ss.114-124, 2016