Obese mother, children are prone to birth defects

Analysis results of several studies published on February 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) show that women who are obese during pregnancy will increase the risk of birth of a baby with birth defects. congenital.

According to analysts, spinal deformities and neural tube defects are birth defects that are most relevant to maternal obesity during pregnancy.

In women who are obese during pregnancy, the risk of having a child with neural tube defects is nearly double and the risk of having a baby with spinal deformities increases more than twice. On the contrary, the risk of having a baby with abdominal cracks is reduced significantly.

Congenital malformations are a major cause of premature death and death in children under 7, accounting for a fifth of all deaths in the United States.

Statistics show that about 3% of children born in this country have been affected by birth defects with an average of nearly 1 in every 1,000 children with neural tube defects and more than 2 children with severe defects in the heart./.