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Volume 8 Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education Community Nursing 2018
November 19-21, 2018
November 19-21, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa
International Conference on
Community Nursing and Public Health
Relationship between maternal obesity and prenatal, metabolic syndrome, obstetrical and perinatal
complications of pregnancy in Indiana, 2008–2010
Shinga Feresu
The Feresu Research and Training Institute, Zimbabwe
Background: Obesity is a serious medical condition affecting more than 30 % of Indiana, and 25 % of Unites States pregnant
women. Obesity is related to maternal complications and significantly impacts the health of pregnant women.
Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between maternal complications and pre-pregnancy
maternal weight.
Methods: Using logistic regression models, we analyzed 2008 to 2010 birth certificate data, for 255,773 live births abstracted
from the Indiana Vital Statistics registry. We examined the risk of reproductive factors, obstetrical complications and perinatal
(intrapartum) complications for underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese women for this population.
Results: Women who received prenatal care were more likely to be obese [Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR)=1.82 (1.56–2.13)],
women with parity of zero (0) were less likely to be obese [AOR=0.89, 95% CI (0.86–0.91)]. Women giving birth to twins
[AOR=1.25, 95% CI (1.17-1.33)], women delivering by Caesarean section [AOR=2.31, 95% CI (2.26–2.37)] and women who
previously had a Caesarean section [AOR=1.95, 95% CI (1.88–2.02)] were more likely to be obese. Obesity was significantly
associated with obstetrical conditions of the metabolic syndrome, including pre-pregnancy diabetes, gestational diabetes, pre-
pregnancy hypertension, pregnancy-induced hypertension and eclampsia [AOR=5.12, 95% CI (4.47–5.85); AOR=3.87, 95% CI
(3.68–4.08); AOR=7.66, 95% CI (6.77–8.65); AOR=3.23, 95% CI (3.07–3.39) and AOR=1.77, 95% CI (1.31–2.40), respectively.
Maternal obesity modestly increased the risk of induction, epidural, post-delivery bleeding and prolonged labor [AOR=1.26,
95% CI (1.23–1.29); AOR=1.15, 95% CI (1.13–1.18); AOR=1.20, 95% CI (1.12–1.28) and AOR=1.44, 95% CI (1.30–1.61)],
respectively.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that maternal obesity in Indiana, like other populations in the USA, is associated with high
risks of maternal complications for pregnant women. Pre-pregnancy obesity prevention efforts should focus on targeting
children, adolescent and young women, if the goal to reduce the risk of maternal complications related to obesity, is to be reached.
Biography
Shinga Feresu is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, completed her PhD in Epidemiology from The University of Michigan in 2001, USA, and Master of
Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University, USA in 1995. She obtained her postgraduate degree in Nursing (Community Health
Nursing Science and Nursing Education) from the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1989. She has taught at The University of Michigan, is Contributing Faculty
at Walden University, USA. Since 2010; taught at The University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA, and Indiana University School of Public Health, Bloomington
USA, before migrating to South Africa November 2014. She was an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pretoria until June
2018. She is an Online Module Developer, and Instructor at the University of Johannesburg, and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Fort Hare (SA). Prof
Feresu has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been a peer reviewer from more than 25 journals. Prof Feresu has supervised more than
50 students in her career.
Shinga Feresu, J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C6-047