Departments of obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt
 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»