New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) highlights the need to support women and their families with overweight or obesity to optimize their health and weight ...
Overweight or obesity prior to pregnancy may be an important marker of the trajectory of CVD risk in midlife, new data suggest. Among healthy pregnant adults with a mean age of 30, having a ...
The 2009 National Academies report, Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines, concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support weight gain recommendations for women in higher ...
Researchers noted that adverse pregnancy outcomes are more of an indicator of pre-pregnancy cardiovascular risk rather than a primary cause of postpartum risk. Specifically, obesity was significantly ...
Over half the women attending antenatal care in the UK are now clinically overweight or obese, and increasing evidence suggests that obesity in pregnancy is associated with cardiometabolic dysfunction ...
When a team of scientists led by a Washington State University researcher examined the way that more than 9,400 children grew from toddlers to pre-adolescents, two distinct trajectories emerged. For ...
A large international study shows that metabolomic signatures in maternal blood, especially later in pregnancy, reveal hidden metabolic risk and predict gestational diabetes and preeclampsia more ...
Guidelines on weight gain during pregnancy were last updated in 2009. These recommendations aimed to balance the benefits and risks associated with weight change during pregnancy. At that time, there ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with a BMI of 40kg/m 2 or more had the greatest risk for maternal morbidity, including preeclampsia. The ...