Articles: SGA risk: normal weight vs obesity, vasa praevia, predicting cerebral palsy, ureteric injury, doctors feeling guilty about being off sick, Mommy brain & Kielland rotational forceps
SGA stillbirth risk: normal weight vs obesity
Obesity is associated with heavier infants. Infants born from mothers who are obese, may be growth-restricted at a higher birthweight compared with infants born from women who are of healthy-weight. The authors here aimed to quantify the birthweight centile at which the risk of stillbirth in obese mothers equalled that of <10th-centile infants born to healthy-weight women.
They demonstrated that the stillbirth rate per 1000 births among <10th-centile infants born to healthy weight mothers was 7.5. This same stillbirth rate was observed in all infants born <41st centile to women with a body mass index (BMI) 40 kg/m2.
Originally presented at PSANZ 2022 by the Mercy Perinatal team from Melbourne.
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