BJOG Release: Further Risks Highlighted For Obese Pregnant Women, UK

New research published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has reported obesity, and having previously given birth, as the two largest risk factors for blood clots in the lungs during pregnancy (antenatal pulmonary embolism). Blood clotting in the lungs is the most important cause of death directly related to pregnancy in women in the UK today, and obese women were found to have an increased risk of 165% compared with non-obese women.

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Filed under: Pregnancy on February 26th, 2008