Lifestyle interventions for overweight and obese pregnant women to improve pregnancy outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis
Open Access
- 10 May 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medicine
- Vol. 10 (1), 47
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-10-47
Abstract
Overweight and obesity pose a big challenge to pregnancy as they are associated with adverse maternal and perinatal outcome. Evidence of lifestyle intervention resulting in improved pregnancy outcome is conflicting. Hence the objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of antenatal dietary, activity, behaviour or lifestyle interventions in overweight and obese pregnant women to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes.This publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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