the birth weight is one of the important factors affecting the perinatal morbidity and mortality. fetal macrosomia is associated with increased risks of cesarean section and trauma. to determine prevalence and outcome of the macrosomic infants, this case-control, prospective study is performed in the two university hospitals in tehran during a 36- month period between 2002 through 2004. 1000 ne...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to test a hypothesis that a history of having a macrosomic infant (≥ 4000 g) is associated with the risk of diabetes. METHODS Data on the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective diabetes cohort were analyzed, which is a population-based cohort study on diabetes. The survey of diabetes was performed at baseline and at the 5-year follow-up. A hist...

Background. The objective was to examine the association between prepregnancy physical exercise and offspring birth weight and to assess the combined association of pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and physical exercise on birth weight. Methods. The study included 2,026 women aged 20-39 years participating in the Norwegian HUNT study and linked with the Medical Birth Registry. We calculated ...

The phenotype of the infant of the diabetic mother is generally perceived as being macrosomic or large for gestational age. However, not all infants of women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are macrosomic and, under certain circumstances, because of the interaction of genes and environment, can present as small for gestational age at birth. In contrast, the macrosomic infant presenting...

The aim of this research was to determine the incidence, risk factors and perinatal outcome of the macrosomic infants (birth weight > or = 4000 g). The retrospective research was performed using a case-control study conducted at Mostar Clinical Hospital. Total of 379 women gave singleton term births to macrosomic newborn in the period from January 1st, 2004 to December 31st, 2005 (observed grou...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of anthropometric measurements with neonatal complications in macrosomic newborns of non-diabetic mothers. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. PATIENTS All liveborn, singleton, full term newborns with birth weight ≥4000 g born to non-diabetic mothers at a tertiary medical centre in 1995-2005 (n=2766, study group) were matched to the next born, healthy, ful...

INTRODUCTION Fetal macrosomia is usually defined when the estimated fetal weight is greater than or equal to 4000 grams. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of macrosomia, to identify its etiological factors and to evaluate maternal and perinatal prognosis. METHODS This is a case-control study conducted in maternity units of 10 general referral hospitals in the city of Lubumb...

Recent data suggests that abnormal maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) or gestational weight gain (GWG) is associated with unfavorable delivery outcomes. However, limited clinical evidence is available to support this correlation in China. Participating 510 mother-infant pairs were recruited from the Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, China, between January 1st and 30th 2016...

Objective: To find out the prevalence of macrosomic births and its obstetric outcome in diabetic and non diabetic maternities of Saudi nationality of Al-Jouf Region. Material and Methods: This one year study was carried out from January 2012 to December 2012 in Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at “Al-Jouf Maternity and Children Hospital”, Sakakha, Al-Jouf Region. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...