Excessive pregnancy weight gain linked to child obesity (10/02/13 07:00:00 UTC)
Women who gain excessive weight during pregnancy are at higher risk of having overweight or obese children, according to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts, conducted a population-based cohort study of 42,133 women who had more than one singleton pregnancy and their 91,045 children...