Risk of Newborn Heart Defects Increases with Maternal Obesity
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 16:42
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- The more obese a woman is when she becomes pregnant, the greater the likelihood that she will give birth to an infant with a congenital heart defect, according to a study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the New York state Department of Health.