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Romy Gaillard

Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Publications -  154
Citations -  4920

Romy Gaillard is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 125 publications receiving 3632 citations. Previous affiliations of Romy Gaillard include Erasmus University Medical Center.

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Risk factors and outcomes of maternal obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy

TL;DR: The prevalence of overweight and obesity among women of reproductive age is increasing and risk factors and maternal, fetal and childhood consequences of maternal obesity and excessive gestational weight gain are determined.
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Association of Gestational Weight Gain With Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes

LifeCycle Project-Maternal Obesity, +76 more
- 07 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: In this meta-analysis of pooled individual participant data from 25 cohort studies, the risk for adverse maternal and infant outcomes varied by gestational weight gain and across the range of prepregnancy weights, however, the optimal gestations weight gain ranges had limited predictive value for the outcomes assessed.
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Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index.

Janine F. Felix, +127 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of childhood body mass index, using sex- and age-adjusted standard deviation scores, identifies three novel loci that likely represent age-related differences in strength of the associations with bodymass index.
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Childhood Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy The Generation R Study

TL;DR: In this article, the associations of both maternal and paternal prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) with childhood body fat distribution and cardiometabolic outcomes and explored whether any association was explained by pregnancy, birth, and childhood factors.
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Associations of maternal obesity with blood pressure and the risks of gestational hypertensive disorders. The Generation R Study.

TL;DR: Maternal obesity and morbid obesity are strongly associated with blood pressure in each trimester, and increased risks of gestational hypertensive disorders.