Women who have had surgery for obesity have raised risk of preterm babies

Women who have had bariatric surgery are at an increased risk of giving birth to a preterm or small baby, a Swedish study has found.1

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm carried out a population based cohort study to examine the association between bariatric surgery and perinatal outcomes. They compared 2562 births after bariatric surgery with 12 468 control births between 1992 and …