medicalxpress : declared in Mother's obesity boosts risk for major birth defects

For the new study, researchers used data on more than 1.2 million births registered in Sweden from 2001 to 2014. It warned that if current trends continue, one in five women will be obese, and one in 10 severely obese, by 2025. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Children of obese women are more likely to be afflicted by major birth defects, including malformations of the heart and genitals, according to a study published on Thursday. Among the offspring of mothers of normal weight, as well as underweight ones, the rate of congenital malformation was about 3.4 percent, the researchers found. They gathered information on major congenital malformations, also known as birth defects, and compared this to the BMI of the mother at the time she gave birth.

Mother's obesity boosts risk for major birth defects

For the new study, researchers used data on more than 1.2 million births registered in Sweden from 2001 to 2014. Children of obese women are more likely to be afflicted by major birth defects, including malformations of the heart and genitals, according to a study published on Thursday. It warned that if current trends continue, one in five women will be obese, and one in 10 severely obese, by 2025. Among the offspring of mothers of normal weight, as well as underweight ones, the rate of congenital malformation was about 3.4 percent, the researchers found. They gathered information on major congenital malformations, also known as birth defects, and compared this to the BMI of the mother at the time she gave birth.


"We know that how parents respond to their children's negative emotions influences the development of children's response patterns over time. She adds, "Sometimes the way parents respond is based on their own stress, belief systems, or the way they were raised. "Children respond to us in different ways based on their own temperament, genotype, and history of interactions. The ways parents respond or get stressed when children get upset are related in an indirect way," Bost says. Those who are Met carriers have the propensity to be more reactive to negative emotion or stress."


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