Arsany Nabil Foad Wasef
Departments of obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt
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Research
Effect of body mass index (BMI) on mode of delivery and maternal and neonatal complications in nulliparous women
Author(s): Mohamed Mahmoud Salman*, Reda Mokhtar Kamal Ghanem, Arsany Nabil Foad Wasef and Mohamed Mahmoud Abd El Aleem
Background and Aim: Over the last decades, overweight and obesity have become an increasing health problem in the world, including Egypt. We attempted to determine the effect of BMI on mode of delivery and maternal and neonatal complications in nulliparous women. Methods: this comparative cross-sectional observational study was conducted at Ain Shams University Hospitals and performed on total of 330 nulliparous pregnant women who attended the pre-labor unit starting from June 2021 till January 2022 with inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The following outcomes showed the same tendency: underweight group showed the best (the most favorable) outcomes, then increasing worse with the weigh, and the morbid obese group showed worst: 1) Cesarean delivery frequency (least frequent in underweight? most freque.. Read More»