the sex and health - Pregnant
women who are overweight can cause health risks to the fetus in her womb. The
risk may be as dire as the effects of smoking or drinking alcoholic beverages
while pregnant.
Pregnant women who suffer from obesity would face the danger of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature babies, and tend to give birth to children who suffer from diabetes and heart disease. In fact, a study found obese women have the possibility of having a child with autism nearly 70 percent.
Reasons for this are unclear, but the Canadian study concluded that obesity is undermining the development of blood vessels in the placenta, which in turn limits oxygen to the fetus.
"The babies in the womb has been programmed to respond to the things that happened to her mother so that it can grow up to be obese, hypertension, diabetes and heart problems later in life," said Dr. Gruslin Andree, a fetal specialist at the University of Ottawa as reported from canada, Thursday (10/05/2012).
The team behind the study warn that these studies using animal subjects, which can not guarantee will occur also in humans.
But other studies on humans also showed that of 300,000 births in Canada each year, about 23 percent of pregnant women who are obese have a number of complications in childbirth.
"This figure includes the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth, too small or too large. Children are also more likely to be at risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes later in life. This is probably due to lack of oxygen supply to the fetus during the content, "said Sandeep Raha, a biochemist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario who was one of the research team.
Pregnant women who suffer from obesity would face the danger of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature babies, and tend to give birth to children who suffer from diabetes and heart disease. In fact, a study found obese women have the possibility of having a child with autism nearly 70 percent.
Reasons for this are unclear, but the Canadian study concluded that obesity is undermining the development of blood vessels in the placenta, which in turn limits oxygen to the fetus.
"The babies in the womb has been programmed to respond to the things that happened to her mother so that it can grow up to be obese, hypertension, diabetes and heart problems later in life," said Dr. Gruslin Andree, a fetal specialist at the University of Ottawa as reported from canada, Thursday (10/05/2012).
The team behind the study warn that these studies using animal subjects, which can not guarantee will occur also in humans.
But other studies on humans also showed that of 300,000 births in Canada each year, about 23 percent of pregnant women who are obese have a number of complications in childbirth.
"This figure includes the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth, too small or too large. Children are also more likely to be at risk of suffering from cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes later in life. This is probably due to lack of oxygen supply to the fetus during the content, "said Sandeep Raha, a biochemist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario who was one of the research team.
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