Background: Maternal body mass index (BMI) is one of the most important predictors of nutritional status of pregnant women, it can have a significant impact on outcome of pregnancy.
Aims and Objectives: This study is to evaluate maternal body mass index and its impact on obstetric outcome like (Miscarriage, gestational diabetes mellitus, gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, anemia, hypothyroidism, preterm delivery, mode of delivery, post-partum complications).
And neonatal outcomes studied were (birth weight, APGAR at 1 minute and 5 minute, admission to neonatal intensive care unit NICU, stillbirth)
Method: This study includes patients from urban, semi-urban as well as nearby rural areas. This is a prospective observational study of 100 pregnant patients who came to antenatal OPD, in their 1st trimester, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at Tertiary care Hospital in Ahmedabad, Western India between March 2024 to February 2025.
Conclusion: We conclude that BMI plays a major role in maternal and perinatal outcomes and both low BMI and high BMI had significant maternal and perinatal outcomes. Women in the underweight BMI group during antenatal suffer from anemia, preterm delivery, IUGR and low birth weight babies. In overweight BMI group, there is an increased incidence of maternal and fetal problems during antenatal period, during labor and postpartum period. Patients suffered from complications like PIH, GDM, PROM and IUGR. There is increased incidence of induction of labor and LSCS
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