Abstract Compared with European Americans, African American infants experience
disproportionately high rates of low birth weight and preterm delivery and are more than …

OBJECTIVE: Pre-pregnancy overweight and excess weight gain during pregnancy have
each been associated with an increased risk of delivering large babies. However, previous …

Diabetic nephropathy is one of the long-term complications of both type 1 and type 2
diabetes. It is a leading cause of end-renal disease in many countries [1]. Furthermore, it is …

A statewide database of vital records and hospital discharge summaries of obstetric and
neonatal admissions for Washington State in 1987–95 was linked to the birth certificates of …

Objectives It has been suggested that neonatal macrosomia may contribute to increased risk
of obesity and type 2 diabetes in later life. Much less is known about the association …

Objective To determine the correlation between parental and offspring birthweight (BW) in
India. Methods The study involved two birth cohorts of successive generations. The parental …

AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the effects of maternal prepregnancy body mass
index (BMI) and weight gain during pregnancy on perinatal outcome in non-diabetic women …

This paper uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to
address the black‐white difference in propensities toward low birth weight (LBW). We …

Obesity constitutes a health problem of increasing worldwide prevalence related to many
reproductive problems such as infertility, ovulation dysfunction, preterm delivery, fetal growth …

Résumé Objectifs.–Étudier les effets d'une prise de poids excessive pendant la grossesse
dans une population de patientes de poids normal avant la grossesse. Patientes et …