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The chances of having neural tube defects in the newborn of an obese woman has been shown to be twice that of a non-obese pregnant female. [2] Some other anomalies that were increased among mothers with obesity included septal anomalies, cleft palate, cleft lip and palate, anorectal atresia, hydrocephaly, and limb reduction anomalies.
Results of the study indicate that Black women in the U.S., ages 66-75, ... For perspective, before 2013, no state had an adult obesity prevalence at or above 35%. Today, at least 20% of adults in ...
The obesity rate for the Hispanic or Latino adults 18 years and older category (over 30 BMI) in the US in 2015 was 31.8%. [64] For the overall Hispanic or Latino men category, the rate of obesity was 31.6% in 2015. [65] For the overall Hispanic or Latina women category, the rate of obesity was 31.9% in 2015. [65]
Women with a high pre-pregnancy weight are classified as overweight or obese, defined as having a BMI of 25 or above. [3] Women with BMI between 25 and 29.9 are in the overweight category and should gain between 7.0 and 11.5 kilograms in total, corresponding to approximately 0.28 kilogram each week during the second and third trimesters. [3]
The Growing Up Today Study (GUTS) is an ongoing collaborative research project between researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1996 in the United States, the study collects data annually from over 26,000 participants in order to evaluate the factors ...
The most recent combined Eurostat statistics, for 2009, show that, among the 19 EU Member States for which data are available, the proportion of obese people in the adult population varied in 2008/9 between 8.0% (Romania) and 23.9% (UK) for women and between 7.6% (Romania) and 24.7% (Malta) for men. Overall the UK had the highest proportions ...
This is a list of countries by obesity rate, with data from the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 2022. World Health Organization (2022 data)
Black women in the US are 2.5 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related issues than white women. That means 49 Black women die per every 100,000 live births, according to the National Center ...