Key result
Pregnancy weight reduction strategies show no adverse outcomes, and diet alone may reduce gestational weight gain.
Why the study?
Do weight reduction strategies and dietary modification improve outcomes in pregnant women with obesity?
Do weight reduction strategies and dietary modification improve outcomes in pregnant women with obesity?
Weight reduction strategies, particularly dietary modification, appear safe and potentially effective for managing gestational weight gain in pregnant women with obesity.
Supports safety of weight strategies in obese pregnancy; leaves open outcome benefits pending randomized trials.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article aims to draw together recent thinking on pregnancy and obesity, with a particular emphasis on prevention strategies and emerging clinical complications. RECENT FINDINGS: New studies including a large meta-analysis have highlighted that weight reduction strategies are not associated with adverse maternal or perinatal outcomes, and there are suggestions that an approach of dietary modification alone may be associated with reduction in gestational weight gain. These findings are critically discussed with reference to future planned trials. New literature regarding hitherto under-reported complications of obesity in pregnancy such as ischaemic heart disease, schizophrenia and sleep disorders is highlighted. SUMMARY: There will be a need to focus on obesity prevention in the pregnant population as resources will not be adequate to the increasing incidence of the problem.
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Rehan Ullah Khan (2012) conducted a review in Morbid obesity in pregnancy. Weight reduction strategies was evaluated. Weight reduction strategies during pregnancy are not associated with adverse maternal or perinatal outcomes, and dietary modification alone may reduce gestational weight gain.
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