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Impact Of Maternal Body Mass Index On Progress And Outcome Of Labor In Nulliparous Females, Omar El-Sayed, Ismail El-Garhy, Ahmed Saeed
Impact Of Maternal Body Mass Index On Progress And Outcome Of Labor In Nulliparous Females, Omar El-Sayed, Ismail El-Garhy, Ahmed Saeed
Al-Azhar International Medical Journal
Background; the body mass index (BMI) is frequently used to classify the severity of obesity and to inform weight-gain guidelines throughout pregnancy. Aim and objectives; to evaluate the impact of BMI of nulliparous females on progress of labour, incidence of peri-partum complications (1ry outcome) and neonatal outcome of these women (secondary outcome). Subjects and methods; This is a prospective cohort study, was carried out on 330nulliparous patients attending the labor ward of Al-Hussein and Sayed Galal hospitals, Al-Azhar University, Egypt, during active phase of labor, divided into 4 groups, from January 2021 until the end of the specified cases. Result; …