ArticleScientific reports2018
Mild Maternal Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Non-obese Pregnant Women and Accelerated Fetal Growth.
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- Fetal and neonatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by maternal sleep-disordered breathing: a systematic review.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Maternal sleep disordered breathing and offspring growth outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep medicine reviews · 2024Pooled it
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- Exposure to Gestational Intermittent Hypoxia Does Not Impair the Metabolic Function or Accelerate the Biological Ageing Process of Offspring of Either Sex.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Influence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Patients With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy and its Impact on Maternal-Fetal Health: A Hidden Threat - Narrative Review.The open respiratory medicine journal · 2025Review
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- Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Associated Intermittent Hypoxia-Induced Immune Responses in Males, Pregnancies, and Offspring.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- A Relation between Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnancy and Delivering Small for Gestational Age Infant-A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Common sleep disorders in pregnancy: a review.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Review
- A Narrative Review of Sex and Gender Differences in Sleep Disordered Breathing: Gaps and Opportunities.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Birth weight influences differently on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in children and adolescents aged 8-15.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Association between sleep disordered breathing in early pregnancy and glucose metabolism.Sleep · 2022Article
- Maternal habitual snoring and blood pressure trajectories in pregnancy.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Fetal Heart Rate Decelerations in Women with Sleep-Disordered Breathing.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2021Article
- Objectively assessed sleep-disordered breathing during pregnancy and infant birthweight.Sleep medicine · 2021Observational
- Snoring and depression symptoms in pregnant women.Sleep health · 2021Article
- Sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy: a developmental origin of offspring obesity?Journal of developmental origins of health and disease · 2021Review
- Influence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Systemic Inflammation in Pregnancy.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Mild maternal sleep-disordered breathing during pregnancy and offspring growth and adiposity in the first 3 years of life.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during pregnancy is rising. OSA during pregnancy has been associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes. The effect of maternal OSA on the fetus, particularly on fetal growth, is less apparent. Most of the currently available human data is based on non-objective assessment of OSA and includes heterogeneous populations with inadequate control on confounders, such as maternal obesity and pregnancy complications. Using objective tools in non-obese women with uncomplicated pregnancies, we aimed to investigate the association between maternal OSA and fetal growth. A total of 155 non-obese pregnant women were recruited. Birth-weight percentile of the newborns of women with mild OSA was significantly higher compared with the newborns of non-OSA controls (72% vs. 57%, respectively, P < 0.01). Birth-length and triceps thickness measurements were significantly higher among the newborns of women with OSA compared with controls (P = 0.02 for both). The proportion of large for gestational age (LGA) newborns was higher among women with OSA compared with controls (28% vs. 8%, respectively, P = 0.04). Our results suggest that maternal OSA during the third trimester of pregnancy - even in a mild form -is associated with accelerated fetal growth.
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