Obesity during pregnancy is grievous
Obesity indicates the presence of unhealthiness in a human body and there can’t be any doubt in it. Well, lots of people among us do know that it is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems. But obesity during pregnancy is more dangerous. This is not the result of any speculation but is a hard fact and a recently made oration asserts how precarious it is.
On the word of Dr. Reena Srivastava of BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, obesity or corpulence in pregnant women is fast emerging as foremost threat for thriving deliveries and the changing life style is expected to make the problem more intense in future. The revered speaker was delivering Dr. Meena Mukherji oration on the concluding day of the three-day 21st annual conference of UP chapter of Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society of India (FOGSI) in Banaras Hindu University.
"Traditionally, the Indian women carry excess total body fat (truncal obesity) and more cases of abdominal obesity are pouring from urban areas and metropolitan cities, she said on the occasion. A high percentage of urban as well as rural women have greater body mass index (BMI) and it makes the antenatal and delivery services even more difficult," she added. "Ideally, the waist to hip ratio should not be more than 0.9 in pregnant women, but high number of overweight and obese pregnant women, especially from the urban areas, are coming to us, enough to raise concern," she said. "It is mostly related to wrong choice of food and improper diet during pregnancy. Similarly, sedentary life style and restricted activities also aggravate the problems during pregnancy," she added, at the time of referring to recent studies and surveys on Indian pregnant women.
As per her, presence of obesity in women can lead to risk factors including diabetes, hypertension, cardio-vascular diseases, respiratory problems and haemorrhage. Besides complications like more blood loss and prolonged labor pain cause challenge to gynecologists.
