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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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.
Journal
PLoS ONE
DOI
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
Article Publication Date
23-Mar-2022
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
