[Pregnancy in obese women (A'uthor's transl)]

Between 1969 and 1971 4,749 antenatal patients were observed. Compared to the tables for ideal weights of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Statistical Bureau, 26.76 percent of the patients were above ideal weight and 11.35 percent of the patients were obese. It was found that complications and illnesses during the pregnancy increased progressively with weight groups above the ideal weight. Hypertension was five times as frequent in obese women than normal, edema and proteinuria were common. Pre-eclampsia was more common in the obese. Varicosities occurred much more often in the maternity cases above normal weight and with obesity.