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Newborn sepsis risk linked to maternal obesity

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Newborn sepsis risk linked to maternal obesity Futurity New research finds an overlap between bacterial sepsis in newborn babies and maternal obesity. "We had found that maternal obesity is related to adverse pregnancy outcomes and to some adverse developmental outcomes for the children, such as cerebral palsy and epilepsy," says lead researcher Eduardo Villamor, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. "Now we found that maternal obesity is also related to increased risk of early-onset neonatal bacterial sepsis." READ MORE

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