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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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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.