Obesity in pregnancy: outcomes and economics

I Rowlands, N Graves, S De Jersey, HD McIntyre… - Seminars in Fetal and …, 2010 - Elsevier
… from obesity in pregnancy, which are the focus of this review, have important economic
implications. Increased costs to healthcare providers, who manage obesity in pregnancy and its …

Economic consequences of overweight and obesity in infertility: a framework for evaluating the costs and outcomes of fertility care

AMH Koning, WKH Kuchenbecker… - Human reproduction …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… for studies reporting on the effect of obesity on these treatments. To … obesity and pregnancy
outcome, we used the key words: (‘obesity’, ‘overweight’ or ‘BMI’) and (‘pregnancy outcome

Predictors of adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women living with obesity: a systematic review

R Fakhraei, K Denize, A Simon, A Sharif… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
obesity are at equal risk. This study investigates which women living with obesity are at higher
risk of specific pregnancy … adverse outcomes among pregnant women living with obesity. …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity and pregnancy: complications and cost

F Galtier-Dereure, C Boegner, J Bringer - The American journal of clinical …, 2000 - Elsevier
Pregnancy outcome in … the outcome of pregnancy, and obesity leads to major maternal
and fetal complications. Given the major economic and medical consequences of pregnancy in …

Contribution of maternal overweight and obesity to the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcomes

Z Yang, H Phung, L Freebairn, R Sexton… - Australian and New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… was used to adjust for the effect of socio-economic status in this study. The ACT has a large
… households; thus, the socio-economic effect may not be represented accurately in these …

Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes

SL Averett, EK Fletcher - Maternal and child health journal, 2016 - Springer
Obesity is a persistent weight status; nearly 88 % of women who are obese in the first
pregnancy we observe are also obese in the last pregnancy we observe. No women who start their …

The economic impact of obesity in the United States

RA Hammond, R Levine - … , metabolic syndrome and obesity …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… is obese. In this article, we provide an overview of the state of research on the likely economic
impact of the US obesity … categories of economic impact linked with the obesity epidemic: …

Health economic modeling to assess short-term costs of maternal overweight, gestational diabetes, and related macrosomia–a pilot evaluation

I Lenoir-Wijnkoop, EM Van der Beek… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… The fact that some studies do not report increased rates of macrosomia despite the increasing
prevalence of obese pregnancies, may be explained by, for instance, changes in obstetric …

The impact of maternal BMI status on pregnancy outcomes with immediate short‐term obstetric resource implications: a meta‐analysis

N Heslehurst, H Simpson, LJ Ells, J Rankin… - Obesity …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… of maternal obesity. This systematic review aimed to investigate relationships between
obesity and … Literature was systematically searched for cohort studies of pregnant women with …

Maternal obesity, metabolism, and pregnancy outcomes

JC King - Annu. Rev. Nutr., 2006 - annualreviews.org
obesity on the shifts in fuel metabolism during pregnancy. However, the high prevalence of
metabolic complications among obese pregnant women suggests that obesitypregnancy is …