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15.2. Association of maternal gastric bypass surgery with offspring birth defects

M Neovius , B Pasternak , I Naslund , J Soderling , K Johansson , O Stephansson

To read the full abstract: JAMA. 2019 Oct 15;322(15):1515–1517. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.12925.The authors merged data from separate national Swedish registers for births and obesity surgery and identified 2921 women who had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2007 to 2014 (‘cases’) and subsequent pregnancies. Controls were identified as women without bariatric surgery ...