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Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619 323 births in England, UK, 1989-2007
- Source :
- Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 63:6-6
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2009.
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Abstract
- Maternal obesity has serious implications to the health of both mothers and infants, including maternal and neonatal death, stillbirth, congenital anomalies, poor breastfeeding rates, and obesity in the offspring. There are also additional complications during antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods which impact on maternity services. However, there is an absence of national statistics for maternal obesity in the UK. This study is the first to describe a nationally representative …
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
Inequality
Epidemiology
Offspring
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Breastfeeding
medicine.disease
Obesity
Health promotion
Environmental health
medicine
Health education
Neonatal death
business
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0143005X
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........923b02d36cb6c76932d7c6f8471bf19c