What to asses in a healthy pregnant with adequate weight at the beginning of the pregnancy: body mass index or body adiposity?

Calixto Orozco Muñoz; Oscar Cañizares Luna; Nélida L Sarasa Muñoz; Alina Artiles Santana; Xiomara Morales Molina; Gilberto Cairo Saéz

2018, Number 1

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CorSalud 2018; 10 (1)

What to asses in a healthy pregnant with adequate weight at the beginning of the pregnancy: body mass index or body adiposity?

Orozco MC, Cañizares LO, Sarasa MNL, Artiles SA, Morales MX, Cairo SG

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In a professional activity in which basic biomedical research is integrated with prenatal care from the nutritional surveillance consultations of pregnant women in community scenarios, a central practical dilemma arises: What to asses in a healthy pregnant with adequate weight at the beginning of pregnancy: body mass index or body adiposity? A context in which the quality of medical care for pregnant women and its preventive projection of noncommunicable chronic diseases may be at stake, with a particular recognized impact on the onset of cardiovascular diseases in the short, medium and long terms. It is in this respect that it is considered opportune to share the following reflections with the scientific community.