Gravidez na adolescência e obesidade: uma revisão bibliográfica acerca de duas questões complexas para a saúde da mulher

Abstract

The present study aimed to establish and discuss, through a literature review, the relationship between teenage pregnancy and obesity treated as serious public health problems much differently and, more recently, so related, as well as highlight the importance monitoring nutritional and anthropometric performed prenatal by practitioners of health facilities. The study, to discuss the specifics of teenage pregnancy and obesity so separated, shows that both issues involve numerous physical and psychosocial changes that when combined, can lead to the development and exacerbation of problems such as low birth weight (LBW) and diseases caused by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), such as diabetes mellitus, preeclampsia and eclampsia, thereby increasing the morbidity and mortality rates of pregnant adolescents and fetus.