Obesity is partly to blame for death rates in pregnant women stalling in UK, study claims - Daily Mail

Rising obesity rates and delaying motherhood to alter in life could be behind a stall in the decline of maternal death rates in the UK according to a major study of 750,000 births by Edinburgh researchers.

Rising levels of obesity may have led to death rates among pregnant women stalling, a study suggests. Women starting families later in life and the increased use of C-sections could also have led to… [+5392 chars]

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