Excessive Weight Gain, Obesity, and Cancer

Excessive Weight Gain and Obesity in Australian Liver Transplant Patients

Maternal Obesity, Excessive Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes Final Report

This review, conducted by the Saskatchewan Prevention Institute (Prevention Institute), aimed to: (a) examine the relationship between maternal obesity and pregnancy outcomes (i.e., maternal outcomes and neonatal, infant and child outcomes); and (b) assess the association between excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) and pregnancy outcomes (i.e., maternal outcomes and neonatal, infant and chi...

Correlates of absolute and excessive weight gain during pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE Factors associated with weight gain during pregnancy that may be linked to maternal overweight and obesity were examined. METHODS In this observational study, 144 women reported on demographics, (prepregnancy) body weight, and lifestyles in self-reported questionnaires at 30 weeks gestation. Body weight at the end of pregnancy (self-reported at 6 weeks postpartum) was used to determ...

Weight Gain, Obesity, and Psychotropic Prescribing

A majority of psychiatric medications are known to generate weight gain and ultimately obesity in some patients. There is much speculation about the prevalence of weight gain and the degree of weight gain during acute and longitudinal treatment with these agents. There is newer literature looking at the etiology of this weight gain and the potential treatments being used to alleviate this side ...

Excessive weight gain among obese women and pregnancy outcomes.

We evaluated pregnancy outcomes in obese women with excessive weight gain during pregnancy. A retrospective study was performed on all obese women. Outcomes included rates of preeclampsia (PEC), gestational diabetes, cesarean delivery (CD), preterm delivery, low birth weight, very low birth weight, macrosomia, 5-minute Apgar score of <7, and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission and wer...