obese pregnant women have a harder time fight against infections as slimmer women do, suggests new research.
Researchers tested the blood of 30 women who were pregnant about six months. Half of obese were and had a body mass index (BMI) of over 30 before the pregnant, while the half had a normal BMI of 20 to 25.
Obese women had fewer immune system cells, the fight against Infektionen--including T cells and natural killer cells, researchers found. Obese women had an impaired ability, these cells produce.
The difference might endanger the health of newborn, obese women, study author Dr. Sarbattama Sen, a researcher in the mother said at research infant Institute of Tufts Medical Center and floating hospital for children in Boston, in an American Academy of Pediatrics press release.
"Women who are obese have important differences women before pregnancy in their function of the immune system during pregnancy compared to normal weight, the negative consequences for mother and child has," said Sen.
Additional urgency due to the increasing number of overweight women of childbearing age, the question of the Sen is added. "Only the beginning has maternal obesity consequences for the mother and baby, who are we to understand."
The study was on the Pediatric academic societies annual meeting in Denver Sunday are presented. The data and conclusions should be considered provisional until a peer review journal published as.
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