title: Prepregnancy obesity: determinants, consequences, and solutions.
abstract: Obesity among women of childbearing age is of paramount importance because of its association with multiple adverse health outcomes for the mother and fetus once a woman becomes pregnant. Obesity is more prevalent among women of lower socioeconomic status and of color who often times lack health insurance. This health disparity that exists within a framework of repeating cycle of risk emphasizes the urgency for accelerating the discovery of solutions for the obesity problem among women of childbearing age.
authors.affiliation: Gillings School of Global Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA. am_siegariz@unc.edu
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Siega-Riz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000208:ethnology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000209:etiology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D015995:Prevalence