Sentence examples for born overweight from inspiring English sources

The study shows that a hormone acting on the placenta can protect the offspring of obese mice from being born overweight.

There is a wide acceptance of the notion that children born to overweight mothers are at higher risk of becoming overweight themselves (5– 8).

In a new study out of Scotland, researchers found that children born to overweight or obese moms are more likely to die before the age of 55.

55 Prenatal factors include high birth weight in girls born to overweight mothers, congenital virilization, and low birth weight.

To estimate the direct healthcare cost of infants born to overweight or obese mothers to the National Health Service in the UK.

8 9 Infants born to overweight or obese women are more likely to be macrosomic, 6 7 8 9 be admitted to intensive care, 5 6 9 and require treatment for jaundice or hypoglycaemia.

Among women without GDM, there were no significant differences in the proportion of LGA infants born to overweight versus normal-weight women, at any level of weight gain.

Infants born to overweight mothers also had higher mean total costs; however, significantly lower costs were observed for outpatient visits, GP visits and prescribed medications.

Conversely, infants born to overweight mothers accrued significantly lower costs in the first and last period while revealing higher costs in early infancy.

Among women without GDM, the proportion of LGA infants born to overweight compared with normal-weight women was similar at high levels of gestational weight gain, but among those who developed GDM in pregnancy, the proportion born to overweight women was substantially and significantly higher than the proportion born to those of normal weight when weight gain exceeded 40 pounds.

Total mean additional resource cost was estimated at £65.13 for infants born to overweight mothers and £1138.11 for infants born to obese mothers, when compared with infants of healthy weight mothers.