Association between prepregnancy body mass index and risk of congenital heart defects in offspring: an ambispective observational study in China

• Main Authors: Xuelian Yuan (Author), Zhen Liu (Author), Jun Zhu (Author), Ping Yu (Author), Ying Deng (Author), Xinlin Chen (Author), Nana Li (Author), Shengli Li (Author), Shuihua Yang (Author), Jun Li (Author), Hanmin Liu (Author), Xiaohong Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common birth defect around the world. Maternal prepregnancy obesity has been proposed as a risk factor of CHDs, but the relationship of CHD risk with over- and underweight is controversial, especially because body mass index (BMI) dist...