Obesity in pregnancy: A big problem and getting bigger

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 389-399

  Mission, John F ^a   Marshall, Nicole E ^a   Caughey, Aaron B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANUS ATRESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLEFT FACE; CLEFT PALATE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LABOR COMPLICATION; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; OMPHALOCELE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; STOMACH BYPASS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PREGNANCY-INDUCED; OBESITY; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; STILLBIRTH; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84877288509     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31828738ce     Document Type: Review

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