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Fertility and perinatal issues in pregnacy after bariatric surgery

V. Traistaru, R. Vladareanu, C. Copaescu, S. Vladareanu


Abstract: Obesity is one of the most important public health problems today. In 2008, over 1.4 billion adults over 20 years old were overweight. Of these, 200 million men and 300 million women were obese. Bariatric surgery is an important and increasingly utilized treatment for morbid obesity and its complications. Approximatelly 40% of all bariatric patients are reproductive-aged women. Obesity during pregnancy is an important risk factor for bad pregnancy and perinatal outcome. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in the United States more than one third of women are obese, more than half of the pregnant women are overweight or obese, and 8% of reproductive-aged women are morbidly obese. This review focuses on the effects of bariatric surgery on obese, reproductive-aged women that became pregnant after the surgical intervention. Although obesity is associated with subfertility regardless of the mode of conception (natural, ovulation induction, in vitro fertilization), fertility improves soon after bariatric surgery, especially in women who had been anovulatory.
DOI:10.18643/gieu.2014.113

Keywords: obesity, bariatric surgery, fertility, pregnancy.

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