Obesity in pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 309-319

  Lim, Chu Chin ^a   Mahmood, Tahir ^a  

^a VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gestational diabetes mellitus; Obesity; Postepartum haemorrhage; Preeeclampsia; Recurrent miscarriage thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL OBESITY; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THROMBOEMBOLISM; UNITED KINGDOM; ABORTION, HABITUAL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; OBESITY; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY, PROLONGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; OBESITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY, PROLONGED; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84933670471     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2014.10.008     Document Type: Article

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