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Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

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Overweight mothers linked to infant heart defects (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Reuters - Women who are overweight or obese when they get pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with congenital heart defects, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday.

Obese mothers more likely to have babies with heart defects (AFP)

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT

A pregnant woman receives a prenatal screening.The risk of having a baby with congenital heart defects was around 18 percent greater if a woman was overweight or obese when she became pregnant than it was among normal-weight women, the study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found.(AFP/File/Joel Robine)AFP - Women who were overweight or obese before they became pregnant are significantly more likely to give birth to a baby with a heart defect, a study published Thursday showed.
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