SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2018
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity and child neurodevelopmental outcomes: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05099900 (Exploration of Women's Experiences and Technology Usage Before, During, and After Pregnancy in Singapore), which is not on this map. Cited by 183 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Exploration of Women's Experiences and Technology Usage Before, During, and After Pregnancy in Singapore
Who cites it
183 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 304 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Body Mass Index on Outcomes of Cervical Cerclage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity facts · 2025Pooled it
- Maternal adiposity and perinatal and offspring outcomes: an umbrella review.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Neonatal Hair Cortisol and Birth Outcomes: An Empirical Study and Meta-Analysis.Psychosomatic medicine · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prenatal, Birth, and Postnatal Factors Associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Pooled it
- Association Between Autism Spectrum Disorders and Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of parental overweight and obesity on offspring's mental health: A meta-analysis of observational studies.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders and Mental and Behavioral Disorders in the Offspring: a Review.Current hypertension reports · 2021Pooled it
- Maternal acute and chronic inflammation in pregnancy is associated with common neurodevelopmental disorders: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity and the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in offspring: a systematic review, meta-analysis and quasi-experimental family-based study.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Pooled it
- Fetal programming of neuropsychiatric disorders by maternal pregnancy depression: a systematic mini review.Pediatric research · 2019Pooled it
- Associations of early pregnancy BMI with adverse pregnancy outcomes and infant neurocognitive development.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Effects of maternal lifestyle interventions on child neurobehavioral development: Follow-up of randomized controlled trials.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2019Trial
- Sex-dependent epigenomic and transcriptomic reprogramming links maternal obesity to cardiac remodeling in adult offspring.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026Article
- Associations between maternal adiposity during pregnancy and neonatal brain cortical development.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- GLP-1R agonist semaglutide protects human forebrain organoids from cholesterol-induced neurotoxicity.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Maternal metformin treatment in obese pregnant dams normalizes neonatal sensory-motor reflexes.Molecular and cellular pediatrics · 2026Article
- Maternal body mass index in early pregnancy and offspring mortality up to early adulthood: A nationwide cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Shared and disorder-specific prenatal and perinatal risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders: a nationwide cohort study.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prenatal phthalate exposure and emotional-behavioral problems in children aged 1.5 to 3 years from the PROTECT birth cohort.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Maternal obesity remodels nutrient transport transcriptional programs in early mouse embryonic and extraembryonic cell lineages.Molecular metabolism · 2026Article
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Abstract
This review examined evidence of the association between maternal pre-pregnancy overweight/obesity status and child neurodevelopmental outcomes. PubMed and PsycINFO databases were systematically searched for empirical studies published before April 2017 using keywords related to prenatal obesity and children's neurodevelopment. Of 1483 identified papers, 41 were included in the systematic review, and 32 articles representing 36 cohorts were included in the meta-analysis. Findings indicated that compared with children of normal weight mothers, children whose mothers were overweight or obese prior to pregnancy were at increased risk for compromised neurodevelopmental outcomes (overweight: OR = 1.17, 95% CI [1.11, 1.24], I
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