Maternal Obesity

Lucilla Poston is Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health, Division of Women's Health, King's College London, London, UK. Matthew W. Gillman is Director of the Obesity Prevention Program and Professor in the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and is Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

As the global obesity pandemic worsens, management during pregnancy is essential to minimize adverse effects on maternal and infant health.

Preface; Part I. Trends and Determinants of Obesity in Women of Reproductive Age: 1. Demography of obesity Maria Regina Torloni, Ana Pilar Betrán and Mario Merialdi; 2. Determinants of obesity Cuilin Zhang and Frank B. Hu; 3. Obesity and fertility Jorge E. Chavarro and Thomas L. Toth; Part II. Pregnancy Outcome: 4. Maternal outcomes in obese pregnancies Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Pat Doyle; 5. Potential mechanisms contributing to gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia in the obese woman Naveed Sattar and Dilys J. Freeman; 6. Fetal and infant outcomes in obese pregnancies Ruth Bell, Peter W. G. Tennant and Judith Rankin; 7. Obesity in pregnancy and mental health Louise M. Howard and Helen Croker; Part III. Long-term Consequences: 8. Long-term consequences of obesity in pregnancy for the mother Andrea Deierlein and Anna Maria Siega-Riz; 9. Long-term consequences of maternal obesity and gestational weight gain for offspring obesity and cardiovascular risk ¿ intrauterine or shared familial mechanisms? Abigail Fraser and Debbie A. Lawlor; 10. Influences of maternal obesity on the health of the offspring: a review of animal models Lucilla Poston, Paul D. Taylor and Peter Nathanielsz; 11. Developmental origins of obesity: energy balance pathways ¿ appetite. The role of developmental plasticity of the hypothalamus Sebastian G. Bouret; 12. Adipose tissue development and its potential contribution to later obesity Shalini Ojha, Helen Budge and Michael E. Symonds; 13. Maternal diet and nutritional status and risk of obesity in the child: the role of epigenetic mechanisms Melissa A. Suter and Kjersti Aagaard-Tillery; Part IV. Interventions: 14. Interventional strategies to improve outcomes in obese pregnancies: focus on gestational weight gain Emily Oken and Matthew W. Gillman; 15. Interventional strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies: insulin resistance and gestational diabetes Scott M. Nelson and Lucilla Poston; 16. Intervention strategies to improve outcomes in obese pregnancies: micronutrients and dietary supplements Lisa M. Bodnar and Meredith S. Parrott; 17. Pre-pregnancy bariatric surgery: improved fertility and pregnancy outcome? Ronald G. Devlieger and Isabelle Guelinckx; Part V. Management and Policy: 18. Clinical management of obesity in pregnancy Carolyn Chiswick and Fiona C. Denison; 19. Public health policies relating to obesity in childbearing women Kathleen M. Rasmussen; Index.