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Ritu Priya
New Delhi, Oct 20 2023
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Pregnant women gaining more weight than that recommended are at a greater risk of death from heart disease or diabetes later in life, according to a study published in The Lancet journal.
The increased mortality risk was found for all weight groups studied , including those defined as underweight, normal or overweight prior to their pregnancies, the researchers said , having analysed more than 45,000US women’s data over 50 years.
No heightened risk was found in women who were obese prior to pregnancy, the team of researchers, led by those from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, said
As in their work showing links between complications in pregnancy and higher death rates in the following years, Hinkle and her colleagues who included members of Penn’s departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and informatics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology , as well the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human development- examined data from the Collaborative Perinatal Project.
