Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England

BACKGROUND: Asians are at increased risk of morbidity at a lower body mass index (BMI) than European Whites, particularly relating to metabolic risk. UK maternal obesity guidelines use general population BMI criteria to define obesity, which do not represent the risk of morbidity among Asian populat...

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Autors principals: Heslehurst, Nicola, Sattar, Naveed, Rajasingam, Daghni, Wilkinson, John, Summerbell, Carolyn D, Rankin, Judith
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: BioMed Central 2012
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554430/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23249162
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-12-156
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