Karkour, T., Abd Aldayem, T., Abd EL Aziz Ibrahim, T., Ally, N. (2024). FETAL MALFORMATIONS AND MATERNAL OBESITY: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AT EL SHATBY UNIVERSITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL. ALEXMED ePosters, 6(1), 48-49. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.275302.1804
TAREK Abdelzaher Karkour; Tamer Abd Aldayem; Tamer Mohamed Abd EL Aziz Ibrahim; Nandu Majaliwa Ally. "FETAL MALFORMATIONS AND MATERNAL OBESITY: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AT EL SHATBY UNIVERSITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL". ALEXMED ePosters, 6, 1, 2024, 48-49. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.275302.1804
Karkour, T., Abd Aldayem, T., Abd EL Aziz Ibrahim, T., Ally, N. (2024). 'FETAL MALFORMATIONS AND MATERNAL OBESITY: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AT EL SHATBY UNIVERSITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL', ALEXMED ePosters, 6(1), pp. 48-49. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.275302.1804
Karkour, T., Abd Aldayem, T., Abd EL Aziz Ibrahim, T., Ally, N. FETAL MALFORMATIONS AND MATERNAL OBESITY: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AT EL SHATBY UNIVERSITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL. ALEXMED ePosters, 2024; 6(1): 48-49. doi: 10.21608/alexpo.2024.275302.1804
FETAL MALFORMATIONS AND MATERNAL OBESITY: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY AT EL SHATBY UNIVERSITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL
1Obstetrics and Gynaecology department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
2Obstetric and Gynecology department, faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria
3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University
4Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University.
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 genetic, 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. AIM: Correlate the frequency of maternal obesity in pregnant women diagnosed with fetal structural malformations by comparing it with the frequency of those with normal maternal body mass index and identifying and rank different types of fetal structural malformations obtained by second trimester ultrasound scan in obese pregnant women.