Observational studyJournal of obesity2015
Health Care Consumption during Pregnancy in relation to Maternal Body Mass Index: A Swedish Population Based Observational Study.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global trends in prevalence of maternal overweight and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of routinely collected data retrospective cohorts.International journal of population data science · 2024Pooled it
- Antepartum Care of Women Who Are Obese During Pregnancy: Systematic Review of the Current Evidence.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2018Pooled it
- The effect of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP): a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies involving 50 million pregnancies.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study in Iran.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and health care utilization and costs in the offspring.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- Antenatal nutritional supplementation and autism spectrum disorders in the Stockholm youth cohort: population based cohort study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2017Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess whether antenatal health care consumption is associated with maternal body mass index (BMI).
designA register based observational study.
methodsThe Swedish Medical Birth Register, the Maternal Health Care Register, and the Inpatient Register were used to determine antenatal health care consumption according to BMI categories for primiparous women with singleton pregnancies, from 2006 to 2008, n = 71,638. Pairwise comparisons among BMI groups are obtained post hoc by Tukey HSD test.
resultObese women were more often admitted for in-patient care (p < 0.001), had longer antenatal hospital stays (p < 0.001), and were more often sick-listed by an obstetrician (p < 0.001) during their pregnancy, compared to women with normal weight women. Preeclampsia was more than four times as common, hypertension five times as common, and gestational diabetes 11 times as common when comparing in-patient care, obese to normal weight women (p < 0.001 for all comparisons). Underweight mothers had longer stay in hospitals (p < 0.05) and hydronephrosis and hyperemesis gravidarum were more than twice as common (both p < 0.001).
conclusionObese and underweight mothers consumed significantly more health care resources and obese women were significantly more often sick-listed during their pregnancy when compared to pregnant women of normal weight.
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