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Obese pregnant women are more likely to experience stillbirth or neonatal death, and over 60 percent of this increased risk is associated with delivery occurring at an earlier gestational age

03.23.22 | PLOS

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Gestational age specific perinatal death rates per 10,000 fetuses at risk by BMI class
Gestational age specific perinatal death rates per 10,000 fetuses at risk by BMI class. Data are smoothed with three week moving averages. Credit: Bone et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Obese pregnant women are more likely to experience stillbirth or neonatal death, and over 60 percent of this increased risk is associated with delivery occurring at an earlier gestational age

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264565

Article Title: The association between pre-pregnancy body mass index and perinatal death and the role of gestational age at delivery

Author Countries: Canada

Funding: This research was supported by the Sick Kids Foundation (Grant # NI18-1272) and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. KSJ is supported by an Investigator award from the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and SL is supported by a Scholar award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. RWP holds the Albert Boehringer I Chair in pharmacoepidemiology at McGill University. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0264565

The association between pre-pregnancy body mass index and perinatal death and the role of gestational age at delivery

23-Mar-2022

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Body Mass Index Gestational Age Health Care Human Health Human Reproduction Obesity Pregnancy

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0264565
Article Publication Date
2022-03-23
Article Title
The association between pre-pregnancy body mass index and perinatal death and the role of gestational age at delivery
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2022, March 23). Obese pregnant women are more likely to experience stillbirth or neonatal death, and over 60 percent of this increased risk is associated with delivery occurring at an earlier gestational age. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LVDYM45L/obese-pregnant-women-are-more-likely-to-experience-stillbirth-or-neonatal-death-and-over-60-percent-of-this-increased-risk-is-associated-with-delivery-occurring-at-an-earlier-gestational-age.html
MLA:
"Obese pregnant women are more likely to experience stillbirth or neonatal death, and over 60 percent of this increased risk is associated with delivery occurring at an earlier gestational age." Brightsurf News, Mar. 23 2022, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LVDYM45L/obese-pregnant-women-are-more-likely-to-experience-stillbirth-or-neonatal-death-and-over-60-percent-of-this-increased-risk-is-associated-with-delivery-occurring-at-an-earlier-gestational-age.html.