Study recommends postponement of pregnancy for 12 months after bariatric surgery
The researchers from the Netherlands evaluated the pregnancy and neonatal outcomes by both surgery-to-conception interval and gestational weight gain. The findings of their study supports recommendation of postponing pregnancy for 12 months after bariatric surgery.
The study has been published in obesity surgery .
Bariatric surgery (BS) is regarded to be the most effective treatment of obesity with long-lasting beneficial effects including weight loss and improvement of metabolic disorders. About half of the women undergoing BS are at childbearing age.
Weight loss after bariatric surgery improves fertility but the procedures might be associated with adverse outcomes like the risk of preterm birth, micro-nutrient deficiency, small for gestational age (SGA) offspring, possibly due to maternal malnutrition. However, high-quality evidence is lacking, and only a few studies included data on gestational weight gain and there is no international consensus concerning the ideal time to conception after bariatric surgery.
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