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By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 02, 2009
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and
Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner
Heavy women may be putting their unborn children at risk of congenital heart defects, researchers say.
Compared with women of normal weight at the beginning of pregnancy, overweight mothers had an 18% increased risk of giving birth to a child with certain heart defects, while the most severely obese had a 30% increased risk, according to Sonja Rasmussen, MD, of the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.
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