SARASA MUNOZ, Nélida L.; CRUZ PEREZ, Betty    ARTILES SANTANA, Alina. Insulin resistance and excess weight gain in healthy women at the beginning of pregnancy. []. , 24, 1, pp. 192-197. ISSN 1029-3043.

Obesity in pregnant women is a complex disease that can lead to further metabolic disorders; however increased adipose tissue can also occur in pregnant women of normal body weight. The objective of this communication was to reflect on the dangers of the obesity trinomial epidemic, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, for new generations and public health in general. The effects of excess adiposity in pregnant women were analyzed, through the changes in placental transport in the "reprogramming" of cellular energy metabolism, and its incidence on different tissues, which can cause insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. We concluded that the awareness of the danger posed by obesity, even when it is overlapping, demands the stratification of its risk based on adiposity rather than body weight of patients.

: insulin resistance; diabetes, gestational; gestational weight gain.

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