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JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 567-570Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2010.492434
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Obesity; pregnancy complications; pregnancy outcomes; Saving Mothers' Lives Report
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Obesity is a growing epidemic in the western world. We carried out a comparative analysis of the incidence of obstetric morbidity in three BMI categories in the ranges 30-40 to identify which BMI category was associated with greatest risk. This identification could help target limited maternity care resources to the group of women who would benefit most. There exists a scale continuum of risk of obstetric morbidity with maternal obesity: the greater the BMI, the greater the risk. However, pregnant women with mild or moderate obesity are still at significant risk of having pre-existing co-morbidities of developing antenatal complications and of being delivered by caesarean section than women with BMIs within the normal range. These women, at the time of antenatal booking, are currently not perceived by healthcare providers as having at-risk pregnancies and are therefore potentially denied access to best care.
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