Obesity linked to perinatal deaths

More than half of Irish mothers who lost an infant in the weeks before or after birth were either overweight or obese, it has emerged.

The National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre in University College Cork has called for a public education programme to reduce the rate of stillbirths in Ireland.

It found that almost 53% of mothers who experienced perinatal loss between 2011 and 2014 were either overweight or obese.