Evidence · Randomised trial
The effects of antenatal dietary and lifestyle advice for women who are overweight or obese on neonatal health outcomes: the LIMIT randomised trial.
- Allied health
- Delivery room and stabilisation
- Growth
- Medical
- Newborn life support
- Nursing
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
- Respiratory
- Respiratory distress syndrome and surfactant
This paper is from 2014, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Secondary neonatal outcomes from the LIMIT randomised trial, in which pregnant women with a BMI of 25 or over received antenatal dietary and lifestyle advice or standard care. Outcomes included birth weight, anthropometry, Apgar scores, resuscitation, nursery admission, respiratory distress syndrome and length of stay in 2,142 infants. Infants of women receiving lifestyle advice were less likely to have birth weight above 4.5 kg or respiratory distress syndrome, and had shorter postnatal stays, without evident harm. Relevant mainly to perinatal and antenatal care teams.
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