DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.037

Pages: 618-621

Maternal obesity during pregnancy is an important public health problem, affected mother health as well as fetus health, in general obesity is a reversible condition characterized by abnormal intra-visceral accumulation of triglyceride lipids, and the prevalence of obesity in Sudan and KSA has increased in the past years. This study was conducted to evaluate maternal obesity fetal risk using ultrasonography in a sex hundred one Sudanese and Saudi pregnant women with BMI 25-30 and >30 kg\cm2 during second and third trimester with normal and abnormal clinical history that can affect fetal growth, the study found that the mean age of obesity was 29.5 years, mean gestational age was 30.7 weeks, maximum fetal weight was 4600g and minimum weight was 184.6g. Normal anomaly scan was shown in 587 patients with percentage of 96.2 % while fetal abnormality was seen in 23 patients with percentage of 3.8% distributed (neural tube defect 1.0 % followed by macrosomia 0.7 % and other abnormalities 2.2%). No statistically significant correlation between BMI and fetal weight and BMI and abnormality seen.