Obesity as an obstetric risk factor: Does it matter in a perinatal center?

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 770-773

  Stepan, Holger ^a,b   Scheithauer, Susann ^a   Dornhöfer, Nadja ^a   Krämer, Thomas ^a   Faber, Renaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cesarean section; Maternal morbidity; Neonatal morbidity; Obstetrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHOULDER; STATISTICS;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BODY MASS INDEX; CESAREAN SECTION; DYSTOCIA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOULDER;

EID: 33846880274     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.88     Document Type: Article

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