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Is obesity still increasing among pregnant women? Prepregnancy obesity trends in 20 states, 2003-2009.

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Overall, prepregnancy obesity prevalence continues to increase and varies by race-ethnicity and maternal age and the need to address obesity as a key component of preconception care, particularly among high-risk groups is highlighted.
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This article is published in Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 236 citations till now.

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Maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States: where are we now?

TL;DR: The article presents the latest data and trends in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, as well as on maternal substance abuse and mental health disorders during pregnancy, two relatively recent topics of interest in the Division of Reproductive Health.
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Outcomes in preterm infants.

TL;DR: The adverse consequences for infants born at 38 and 39 weeks gestation are also of a higher risk than those for infants Born at 40 weeks gestation, with the neonatal mortality risk increasing again in infants born beyond the 42nd week of gestation.
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Risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes by prepregnancy body mass index: a population-based study to inform prepregnancy weight loss counseling.

TL;DR: The results of this population-based cohort study can inform prepregnancy weight loss counseling by defining achievable weight loss goals for patients that may reduce their risk of poor perinatal outcomes.
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Obesity and mental disorders during pregnancy and postpartum: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Health care providers should be aware that women who are obese when they become pregnant are more likely to experience elevated antenatal and postpartum depression symptoms than normal-weight women, with intermediate risks for overweight women.
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Maternal obesity and risk of cesarean delivery: a meta-analysis.

TL;DR: A meta‐analysis of the current literature to provide a quantitative estimate of the risk of cesarean delivery associated with high maternal body mass found no evidence that these estimates were affected by selected study characteristics.
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Does high body mass index increase the risk of miscarriage after spontaneous and assisted conception? A meta-analysis of the evidence

TL;DR: There is evidence that obesity may increase the general risk of miscarriage, however, there is insufficient evidence to describe the effect of obesity on miscarriage in specific groups such as those conceiving after assisted conception.
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Trends in pre-pregnancy obesity in nine states, 1993-2003.

TL;DR: This study used a large population‐based data source to examine trends, from 1993 through 2003, in the prevalence of pre‐pregnancy obesity among women who delivered live infants.
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Maternal obesity and risk of stillbirth: a metaanalysis

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a meta-analysis to summarize the available epidemiologic evidence on the relationship between maternal overweight and obesity and the risk of stillbirth, using a Bayesian random effects model to perform the metaanalysis and metaregression.

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