Purpose: To evaluate if lifestyle intervention (diet and exercise) can reduce maternal weight gain, the incidence of pregnancy complications and minimize the number of macrosomic infants.
Obese pregnant women with a BMI\>30 are randomized to Diet + Exercise, Exercise or control (1:1:1) in order to reduce maternal weight gain to less than 5 kg during pregnancy. The effect on the children of mothers in this study is evaluated in the study: Is it possible to reduce the Number of Macrosomic Infants With Abundant Fat Tissue by Lifestyle Intervention during Pregnancy (NCT01235676)
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
420
Diet: Intensive counselling about calorie restriction to reduce weight gain by dietician. Exercise: Individual counselling
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hvidovre University Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark
Maternal weight gain
Time frame: At delivery, avarage 27 weeks after inclusion. For the last participant this will be aproximately April 2012
Pregnancy complications
Time frame: At delivery, avarage 27 weeks after inclusion. For the last participant this will be aproximately April 2012
Glucose tolerance in pregnancy
Time frame: At delivery, avarage 27 weeks after inclusion. For the last participant this will be aproximately April 2012
Birth weight
Time frame: At delivery, avarage 27 weeks after inclusion. For the last participant this will be aproximately April 2012
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