title: [Overweight and obesity as the risk factor in perinatology].
abstract: Overweight and obesity have become a frequent phenomenon among pregnant women during last thirty years. They result in increased morbidity rates of different chronic, health- or even life-threatening diseases. Among different perinatal complications associated with obesity the most important are: hypertension, diabetes, varices, cholecystolithiasis, prolonged pregnancy, intrauterine growth retardation. Increased rates of operative deliveries, intrapartal and postpartal infections, thrombotic complications, anaemia, urinary infections and lactation disorders can be observed.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Perinatologii, Instytutu Ginekologii i Połoznictwa Akademii Medycznej w Łodzi.
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authors.lastname: Zdziennicki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000517:prevention & control; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000209:etiology; D010500:Perinatology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011295:Prenatal Care; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors