Teng Yue, Yan Ling, Dong Wenlan, Lai Jianqiang
Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Beijing 100010, China.
Wei Sheng Yan Jiu. 2010 Sep;39(5):570-2.
To investigate the effect of pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) on blood glucose, blood pressure and body weight during pregnancy in women.
600 pregnant women in Beijing Haidian Maternal and Child Health Hospital were followed from 5th, Feb. 2009 to 15th, Mar. 2009 as a cohort study. Height, weight, blood glucose and blood pressure were detected in all the pregnant period.
The pre-pregnancy BMI correlated significantly with gestational weight in different pregnancy phases (P < 0.05). The rates of impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes mellitus and hypertension during pregnant in overweight and obesity women are much higher than the rates in low and normal body weight women (P < 0.05).
The pre-pregnancy BMI is a crucial risk factor of gestational hypertension, gestational high blood glucose and the gestational body weight. To carry out pre-pregnancy health education is an important measure to prevent complications of pregnancy.
