Pediatrics magazine publishes the results of a study by the State University of New York, which shows that obese women who have undergone a gastric bypass operation (stomach reduction) to lose weight before pregnancy, reduce the risk of their children becoming obese.
Obesity causes problems in physical and psychic health, with more damage during pregnancy, as it also affects the development of pregnancy, increasing the chances of complications also in childbirth, with the future baby being one of those harmed.
Apparently, the mother's weight loss avoids the extra nutrition that the fetus would receive while in the womb, since certain factors nullify the expression of obesity genes in these babies, improving the sensitivity of the insulin that It is produced and minimizing the chances of embryo growth being excessive. This practice also reduces the number of cesarean deliveries, for this and other reasons, the reduction of stomach in obese women before remaining in the state becomes a medical recommendation that also reduces the risk of chromosomal abnormalities or malformations in the fetus. Only after gastric surgery is recommended to wait 18 months to stabilize the weight before becoming pregnant.
The study computed cases of obesity or possible obesity in 172 children aged 2 to 18 years, whose mothers, 113 were obese and had undergone gastric bypass before pregnancy, 45 who underwent surgery after birth and the rest population in general. Thus, the results showed that children born before surgery had a 60% chance of becoming obese and children whose mothers had surgery before becoming pregnant reduced these possibilities to 35%, a normal figure in the general population .
