Maternal obesity

Demography of obesity / Maria Regina Torloni, Ana Pilar Betrán, and Mario Merialdi -- Determinants of obesity / Cuilin Zhang and Frank B. Hu -- Obesity and fertility / Jorge E. Chavarro and Thomas L. Toth -- Maternal outcomes in obese pregnancies / Eugene Oteng-Ntim and Pat Doyle -- Potential mechanisms contributing to gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia in the obese woman / Naveed Sattar and Dilys J. Freeman -- Fetal and infant outcomes in obese pregnancies / Ruth Bell, Peter W.G. Tennant, and Judith Rankin -- Obesity in pregnancy and mental health / Louise M. Howard and Helen Croker -- Long-term consequences of obesity in pregnancy for the mother / Andrea Deierlein and Anna Maria Siega-Riz -- Long-term consequences of maternal obesity and gestational weight gain for offspring obesity and cardiovascular risk : intrauterine or shared familial mechanisms / Abigail Fraser and Debbie A. Lawlor -- Influences of maternal obesity on the health of the offspring : a review of animal models / Lucilla Poston, Paul D. Taylor, and Peter Nathanielsz

Developmental origins of obesity : energy-balance pathways - appetite : the role of developmental plasticity of the hypothalamus / Sebastien G. Bouret -- Adipose tissue development and its potential contribution to later obesity / Shalini Ojha, Helen Budge, and Michael E. Symonds -- Maternal diet and nutritional status and risk of obesity in the child : the role of epigenetic mechanisms / Melissa A. Suter and Kjersti Aagaard-Tillery -- Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : focus on gestational weight gain / Emily Oken and Matthew W. Gillman -- Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : insulin resistance and gestational diabetes / Scott M. Nelson and Lucilla Poston -- Intervention strategies to improve outcome in obese pregnancies : micronutrients and dietary supplements / Lisa M. Bodnar and Meredith S. Parrott -- Pre-pregnancy bariatric surgery : improved fertility and pregnancy outcome / Roland G. Devlieger and Isabelle Guelinck -- Clinical management of obesity in pregnancy / Carolyn Chiswick and Fiona C. Denison -- Public health policies relating to obesity in childbearing women / Kathleen M. Rasmussen