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Maternal obesity /

Afflicting more than 300 million women across the globe, obesity has profound effects on health during pregnancy and on the wellbeing of the unborn child. In the face of such a challenging pandemic, this book reviews the latest research and provides up-to-date advice on clinical management. Maternal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gillman, Matthew W., Poston, Lucilla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge medicine (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Demography of obesity / Maria Regina Torloni, Ana Pilar Betrán, and Mario Merialdi
  • Determinants of obesity / Cuilin Zhang and Frank B. Hu
  • Obesity and fertility / Jorge E. Chavarro and Thomas L. Toth
  • Maternal outcomes in obese pregnancies / Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Pat Doyle
  • Potential mechanisms contributing to gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia in the obese woman / Naveed Sattar and Dilys J. Freeman
  • Fetal and infant outcomes in obese pregnancies / Ruth Bell, Peter W.G. Tennant, and Judith Rankin
  • Obesity in pregnancy and mental health / Louise M. Howard and Helen Croker
  • Long-term consequences of obesity in pregnancy for the mother / Andrea Deierlein and Anna Maria Siega-Riz
  • Long-term consequences of maternal obesity and gestational weight gain for offspring obesity and cardiovascular risk : intrauterine or shared familial mechanisms / Abigail Fraser and Debbie A. Lawlor
  • Influences of maternal obesity on the health of the offspring : a review of animal models / Lucilla Poston, Paul D. Taylor, and Peter Nathanielsz.
  • Developmental origins of obesity : energy-balance pathways
  • appetite : the role of developmental plasticity of the hypothalamus / Sebastien G. Bouret
  • Adipose tissue development and its potential contribution to later obesity / Shalini Ojha, Helen Budge, and Michael E. Symonds
  • Maternal diet and nutritional status and risk of obesity in the child : the role of epigenetic mechanisms / Melissa A. Suter and Kjersti Aagaard-Tillery
  • Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : focus on gestational weight gain / Emily Oken and Matthew W. Gillman
  • Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : insulin resistance and gestational diabetes / Scott M. Nelson and Lucilla Poston
  • Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : micronutrients and dietary supplements / Lisa M. Bodnar and Meredith S. Parrott
  • Pre-pregnancy bariatric surgery : improved fertility and pregnancy outcome / Roland G. Devlieger and Isabelle Guelinck
  • Clinical management of obesity in pregnancy / Carolyn Chiswick and Fiona C. Denison
  • Public health policies relating to obesity in childbearing women / Kathleen M. Rasmussen.