Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Trends in obesity prevalence during early pregnancy in Gran Canaria, Spain, 1993 to 2022
Introduction The global prevalence of obesity has increasingly affected women of reproductive age, leading to several adverse outcomes during pregnancy, childbirth, and for their newborns. The objective of this study was to estimate time trends in early pregnancy among women who delivered live births in Gran Canaria (Spain) from 1993 to 2022 with stratified analysis by age, educational level, and parity. Methods Data were obtained from 178,305 pregnant women who delivered at the Maternal & Child University Hosp …