Pregnancy complications and outcomes among overweight and obese nulliparous women.

By J. Baeten, E. Bukusi, M. Lambe. American Journal of Public Health, 2001

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Effect of Body Mass Index on pregnancy outcomes in nulliparous women delivering singleton babies (2007, background): “Our results agree with earlier reports which have shown an association between increasing BMI and interventions like induced labour [10,13,20] and caesarean delivery [8,10,14,23].”
Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index in Relation to Infant Birth Weight and Offspring Overweight/Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2013, methodology): “The first was according to the recommendation of Abrams and Parker [30]: underweight (BMI,20 kg m22), normal weight (20– 24.9 kg m22), overweight (25–29.9 kg m22), and obese ($30 kg m22).”
Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, positive): “Obesity itself increases the risk of gestational diabetes by fivefold (Baeten et al., 2001), but even obese women with normal glucose tolerance have a twofold risk of having a macrosomic baby (Kleigman et al.”