NCT01345149

Effect of Intervention With Diet and Physical Activity in Obese Pregnant Women

Effect of Lifestyleintervention With Diet and Physical Activity in Obese Pregnant Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 420 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hvidovre University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Purpose: To evaluate if lifestyle intervention (diet and exercise) can reduce maternal weight gain, the incidence of pregnancy complications and minimize the number of macrosomic infants.

Detailed description

Obese pregnant women with a BMI\>30 are randomized to Diet + Exercise, Exercise or control (1:1:1) in order to reduce maternal weight gain to less than 5 kg during pregnancy. The effect on the children of mothers in this study is evaluated in the study: Is it possible to reduce the Number of Macrosomic Infants With Abundant Fat Tissue by Lifestyle Intervention during Pregnancy (NCT01235676)

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Diet + Exercise	Diet: Intensive counselling about calorie restriction to reduce weight gain by dietician. Exercise: Individual counselling

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-04-29
• Last updated: 2012-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark