TY - JOUR T1 - Trends in maternal obesity and health inequalities in a nationally representative sample of 619 323 births in England, UK, 1989–2007 JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 6 LP - 6 DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.096701f VL - 63 IS - Suppl 2 AU - N. Heslehurst AU - J. Rankin AU - J. Wilkinson AU - C. D. Summerbell Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/63/Suppl_2/6.abstract N2 - Maternal obesity has serious implications to the health of both mothers and infants, including maternal and neonatal death, stillbirth, congenital anomalies, poor breastfeeding rates, and obesity in the offspring. There are also additional complications during antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods which impact on maternity services. However, there is an absence of national statistics for maternal obesity in the UK. This study is the first to describe a nationally representative … ER -