ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2022
The Impact of Maternal Obesity on NICU and Newborn Nursery Costs.
Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Developmental origins of immunometabolic health.Immunometabolism (Cobham, Surrey) · 2026Review
- Association of Prepregnancy Obesity versus Excessive Gestational Weight Gain with Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the United States.American journal of perinatology · 2025Article
- The Effect of Obesity and Pregnancy Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Health.Journal of obesity · 2024Article
- Influence of Physical Activity during Pregnancy on Neonatal Complications: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Review
- Maternal weight latent trajectories and associations with adverse pregnancy outcomes using a smoothing mixture model.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Virtual Exercise Program throughout Pregnancy during the COVID-19 Pandemic Modifies Maternal Weight Gain, Smoking Habits and Birth Weight-Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background: Research on the effects of maternal obesity on neonates has focused on clinical outcomes. Despite growing interest in obesity as a driver of healthcare expenditure, the financial impact of maternal obesity in the neonatal setting is little understood. Objective: To determine if maternal obesity is associated with higher incurred costs in NICU and full-term nursery. Methods: Data for all live births (1/1/14-12/31/19) at our academic medical center was obtained from the New York State Perinatal Data System for infants >23 weeks gestational age. Financial data was obtained from the hospital's cos Results: Of the 11,610 pregnancies in this retrospective study, obese mothers more frequently had other risk factors (smoke, pre-pregnancy and gestational diabetes, and pre-pregnancy and gestational hypertension). Infants born to obese mothers were more often preterm, had Cesarean delivery, lower APGAR scores, required assisted ventilation in the delivery room, and required NICU admission. Adjusting for maternal risk factors, infants born to obese mothers were less frequently preterm (OR 0.82 [0.74-0.91], Conclusions: Maternal obesity correlates with other risk factors. Prolonged maternal stay may explain increased LOS and costs in the full-term nursery for infants born to obese mothers, as infants wait to be discharged with mothers.
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