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Abstract
Obesity is today regarded as a global epidemic, since its effects on mortality and morbidity in pediatric patients and adults are becoming more and more significant and according to recent statistics, 650 million persons worldwide are obese and nearly 1.9 billion are overweight. Obesity-related deaths have been estimated to be in an increase and reach millions in number.
For the growing fetus or embryo, maternal obesity offers a changed epigenetic, hormonal, and biochemical environment that affects fetal growth and organ development.
Obese women carry a higher risk of fetal death, congenital abnormalities, and interrupted growth patterns in their offspring, of which increases perinatal mortality.
In the total of 140 cases of this study that were involved, those with normal body mass index were 50 cases that represented 35.7% of all the studied cases, the overweight group had the greatest number of cases that were 60 that represented 42.9% of the studied cases and the obesity ones were 30 cases that represented 21.4% of all cases.