The impact of obesity on first-trimester pregnancy dating using ultrasound: a retrospective cohort study
Obese women have higher rates of pregnancy redating compared to normal weight women, with class III obese women having the highest rates of all groups studied. Accurate pregnancy dating is important to decrease unnecessary interventions due to false diagnoses of fetal growth restriction or macrosomia.
Authors
- Rodney K. Edwards (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8749-3327)
- Brianna Désiré
- Sabrina N. Wyatt
- Jennifer David Peck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0024-8818)
- Blake Porter
- Osariemen Omoregie
Institutions
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
- Published
- 2025-02-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14767058.2025.2466060
- Primary Topic
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00