Maternal Prepregnancy Overweight And Obesity May Be Associated With Lower IQ Scores In Boys In Low-Income, Multiethnic Populations, Researchers Say

“Maternal prepregnancy overweight and obesity were found to be associated with lower IQ scores in boys in low-income, multiethnic populations,” researchers concluded after examining “data from a cohort of low-income African American and Dominican mother-child pairs in the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health Mothers and Newborns study to identify sex-specific associations between maternal prepregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, and early neurodevelopment.” The findings were published online in BMC Pediatrics. https://www.endocrinologyadvisor.com/home/topics/obesity/prepregnancy-bmi-linked-to-cognitive-outcomes-in-boys/