Preeclampsia and Obesity

 Posted by Chantel M. Research contributed by the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
The prevalence of childbearing age obesity is wide spreading in US, approximately, 50% of them are either overweight [body mass index (BMI) 25-29.9 kg/m(2)] or obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m(2)).
Preeclampsia and Obesity
Preeclampsia is a major public health issue, associated with a significant maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality worldwide.  Among young women, obesity is especially important because maternal obesity confers an increased risk of preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. According to the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Recently, extensive vascular infiltration of neutrophils and vascular inflammation has been reported in both preeclamptic women and obese women. Therefore, if the vasculature of obese women is inflamed, they could be at increased risk of developing preeclampsia when they become pregnant and are exposed to the additional burdens of pregnancy, posted in PubMed. Other study, posted in PubMed, indicated that the risk of preeclampsia and eclampsia increased significantly with increasing BMI and decreasing age. Extremely obese teenagers were almost four times as likely to develop preeclampsia and eclampsia compared with nonobese women aged 20-24 years (adjusted odds ratio [95% confidence interval] = 3.79 [3.15-4.55]). Whereas obesity elevated the risk for preeclampsia and eclampsia among all women in the study, teenagers were most at risk because of the combined effects of young age and obesity.

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