The risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in women who are overweight or obese

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Athukorala, Chaturica ^a   Rumbold, Alice R ^a,b   Willson, Kristyn J ^a   Crowther, Caroline A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LIVE BIRTH; MACROSOMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MOTHER; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LABOR INDUCTION; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CESAREAN SECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957376465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-10-56     Document Type: Article

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