background: we examined whether pregnant women with preeclampsia have an increased rate of pre-pregnancy polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). this study also evaluated whether the association, if any, was a result of preeclampsia and its relationship to pcos or dependent upon concurrent obesity. materials and methods: in this study, 75 preeclampsia cases and 225 normotensive pregnant controls, mat...

BACKGROUND High maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk of offspring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the role of unmeasured familial confounding for this association remains unclear. METHODS We conducted a population-based cohort study via linkage of Swedish national and regional registers to investigate maternal pre-pregnancy B...

BACKGROUND Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity may be associated with impaired infant neuropsychological development; however, there are few studies and it is unclear if reported associations are due to intrauterine mechanisms. METHODS We assessed whether maternal pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity were associated with cognitive and psychomotor development scores (mean 100 ± 15) of children aged...

OBJECTIVE To estimate and compare the prevalences of overweight, obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes among a nationally representative sample of Mexican-American, non-Latino white and black adults, and by acculturation for Mexican-Americans. DESIGN, SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS The NHANES 1999-2008 data sets were used. Binomial regression models were used to compute prevalence ratios and their re...

Background: To determine the association between pre-conception obesity and screening results of pre-natal and post-natal anxiety in women referred to the health centers of Tabriz, Iran. Methods: 62 obese (class 2-3) and 245 normal-weight women were enrolled in the first trimester of pregnancy through the cohort study and followed up 1 year after childbirth from December 2012 to January 2016. ...

INTRODUCTION obesity in pregnancy has been associated with increased morbidity for the mother and fetus. OBJECTIVE to quantify the association between obesity in pregnancy with growth deviations of their newborn infants. METHODS a study of non-matched cases and controls was performed based on the Nuevo Civil Hospital of Guadalajara "Dr. Juan I Menchaca" 2012-2013. The dependent variables we...

OBJECTIVES The lower mortality rate of obese patients with heart failure (HF) has been partly attributed to reverse causation bias due to weight loss caused by disease. Using data about weight both before and after HF, this study aimed to adjust for reverse causation and examine the association of obesity both before and after HF with mortality. METHODS Using the Atherosclerosis Risk in Commu...

BACKGROUND Secular trend data on hypertension in children and adolescents are scarce and inconsistent. In the face of growing obesity, we sought to assess high blood pressure (HBP) secular trends in children and adolescents enrolled in national surveys and to determine whether the HBP trend reversed its course with the rise in obesity. METHODS AND RESULTS National survey data obtained from mu...

AIMS To determine the prevalence of pre-hypertension (pre-HTN) and hypertension (HTN) in Portuguese adolescents in Lisbon and to ascertain the relationship between blood pressure (BP) levels and the risk factors of gender, obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise and family history of HTN. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study in a non-randomized sample of 234 adolescents of both se...

This review assessed the effectiveness of pre-school- and school-based obesity prevention and/or treatment interventions targeting healthy eating, physical activity or obesity in African American children and adolescents. Systematic searches were conducted for English-printed research articles published between January 1980 and March 2013. Retained articles included experimental studies conduct...