Zaid Rasheed Al-Ani
Al-Anbar University, Iraq
Title: A guide to calculate the expected pre-pregnancy weight to study the risk of maternal overweight and obesity on congenital anomalies
Biography
Biography: Zaid Rasheed Al-Ani
Abstract
By deciding a four difference factors, one for low, normal, overweight, and obese pregnant mothers as 60% of the corresponding weight gain during pregnancy, and subtracting every factor from its corresponding postpartum weight, to calculate the corresponding EPPBMI in cases and controls, to study the risk of overweight and obesity on CAs in these types, mothers were examined retrospectively at the birth defect center of Al-Ramadi city at 2010. For every case mother, two mothers producing healthy neonates selected randomly as controls. Calculated EPPBMI of cases compared with controls to study the risk of gestational obesity on CAs using odd's ratio and relevant 95% confidence interval