The risk of obese women bearing children with congenital heart defects climbs with increasing maternal body-mass index (BMI); this applies to such defects in general but also for many in particular, suggests a population-based case-control study from New York.Kudos, fatsos.
The jump in risk was 15% for all obese women, those with a BMI >30, and double that for those with a BMI >40, compared with women of normal weight. Women who were simply "overweight" or "underweight" showed no significant change in overall risk. The analysis was published online April 7, 2010 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Maternal obesity is a well-established risk factor for some congenital malformations, including, a lot of evidence suggests, heart defects, lead author Dr James L Mills (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD) observed for heartwire . "Our study goes beyond that to show significantly increased risks for a number of individual [heart] defects."
But its most important finding, according to Mills, is that the greater the obesity, the higher the risk.
Discourage fat people from having kids.
Hold fat parents accountable.
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