are at a bigger risk of having repeated miscarriages

A word of warning to all women hoping to get pregnant is that their weight could have an impact on the likelihood of whether they carry the baby to the full term. A new research project done by St Mary's Hospital in London shows that women who suffer from obesity are at a bigger risk of having repeated miscarriages and the study authors said that they should be notified of this by their doctors.

The researchers also took into account the age of the women who were taking part of the project and also whether they had had previous miscarriages and it became clear that there was definite correlation between obesity and miscarriage rates.

The study which has been on going for over eleven years was designed to quantify the risk of obesity to miscarriage rates and the researchers said that this risk could now be quantified at about 60 percent greater than for normal weight women.

Winnie Lo who is a Clinical Nurse based at the St Mary's Hospital said that women who had miscarried and who were obese should be given strong advice to lose weight before they try and get pregnant again if they hoped to lower the chances of the same problem returning.

This research was the subject of a talk at a conference of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Canada and will do much to dispel the old fashioned and traditional myth that overweight females are very fertile.

Other research projects examined by Ukmedix News show that overweight females are also much less likely to get pregnant in the first place. Obesity not only affects the fertility of women but also of men making their sperm less potent and can also have a detrimental effect on erectile function.