Obese and Overweight Women Have a Higher Risk of Giving Birth to Baby with Heart Defects
October 1, 2009
The largest study of obesity during pregnancy and babies with heart defects in the United States finds that women who were overweight or obese before they became pregnant had an approximately 18 percent increased risk of having a baby with certain heart defects compared with women who were of normal body mass index (BMI) before they became pregnant.
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