Pregnancy and Obesity

✍ Scribed by Cynthia Maxwell (editor); Dan Farine (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: Hot Topics in Perinatal Medicine; 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Obesity epidemic is a global problem of the 21th century for women in reproductive age and also the obstetricians and pediatricians. There are influences of mother's prepragnancy and antepartal obesity, at delivery, for fetal programming and for maternal and fetal lifelong metabolism. The epidemiological results are important, but for the health care providers the skills for prevention of mother's obesity with all consequences are essential. Evaluated programms in nutrition and physical activity will be discussed.

• Up-to date knowledge of prepregnancy topics, antenatal care and intrapartum
• Physiology, prevention and care of obese women and long term outcome

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Contents
Contributing authors
Section I: Planning for pregnancy
1. Epidemiology of obesity
2. How useful are the guidelines for weight gain in pregnancy?
3. The endangered intrauterine milieu: the effect of diabetes, obesity, or both
4. Adipokines and pathophysiology of pregnancy complications
5. Perinatal outcomes following bariatric surgery
6. Conception and obesity
7. Obesity and contraception
8. Obesity in pregnancy: a review of international guidelines
9. Diet and the obese pregnant patient
10. Medical and surgical management of obesity prior to planned pregnancy
11. Maternal obesity and medical complications
Section II: Pregnancy management
12. Second trimester fetal ultrasonography in the obese pregnant patient
13. Fetal anomalies in obese women
14. The professional responsibility model of obstetrics ethics: implications for the management of obesity during pregnancy
15. The obese patient: losing weight in pregnancy
16. Obesity and hypertension
17. Venous thromboembolism in the obese pregnant patient
18. MicrObesity in pregnancy: the inside story
19. Obesity and the risk of stillbirth
Section III: Intrapartum management
20. Induction of labor in the obese patient
21. Analgesia and anesthesia for the obese parturient
22. Obstetric nursing and team organization in planning for obese parturient
23. Cesarean delivery in women with obesity
24. Vaginal delivery in the obese patient
Index