The Impact of Obesity on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Impact of Obesity on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes; Analytic Cross Sectional Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03251833
• Other study ID #: OMP
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: March 4, 2018
• Est. completion date: December 2018

Study information

• Verified date: June 2018
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: Norhan Tarek, MBBCh
• Phone: 00201091467612
• Email: noor.647[@]yahoo.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Body Mass Index is an index that is commonly used to classify underweight, overweight and obesity in adults. It is defined as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters.The growing epidemic of obesity in our society has become a major public health issue where the proportion of overweight and obese among women aged 15-59 have increased from 68 percent in 2008 to 76 percent in 2015

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 2000
• Est. completion date: December 2018
• Est. primary completion date: October 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• pregnant women

• single fetus

• gestational age >28weeks

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient refusal

• multifetal pregnancy

• Medical illness prior to pregnancy.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	Assiut Faculty of Medicine	Assiut

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The incidence of preeclampsia in both groups	The number of women who develop hypertension with proteinuria in pregnancy	24 hours