Researchers call for jump in obesity during pregnancy to be addressed

in #food7 years ago


The number of Australian women who are obese or overweight during pregnancy is increasing, resulting in worrying health outcomes University of Sydney researchers have reported.

Published online by the Medical Journal of Australia, a study involving researching 42, 582 first-time Australian mothers between 1990 – 2014 found obesity rates increased from 4.8 per cent to 7.3 per cent.

The occurrence of overweight women who were pregnant increased from 12.7 per cent to 16.4 per cent.

“Were overweight and obese women to have moved down one BMI category during 2010–2014, 19 per cent of preeclampsia,15.9 per cent of macrosomia, 14.2 per cent of gestational diabetes, 8.5 per cent of caesarean deliveries, 7.1 per cent of low for gestational age birthweight, 6.8 per cent of post-partum haemorrhage, 6.5 per cent of admissions to special care nursery, 5.8 per cent of prematurity, and 3.8 per cent of fetal abnormality could have been averted,” the authors wrote

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