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Project No. 122 (1997)Maternal Risk Factors for Fetal Macrosomia and Its Obstetric ComplicationsStudent Authors: Khaid Khalfan SabetFaculty Supervisors: Dr. M. HossainAbstract:Objectives To determine the effect of maternal risk factors on the outcome ofpregnancy and newborns in terms of fetal size and their effect on the type of deliveryand complications during delivery.Methods A retrospective case- control study was conducted on 200 cases of motherswith large babies and 200 control of mothers with appropriate for gestational agebabies, who delivered in Al Ain Hospital during 1996. A total of 400 maternal chartsrelated to macrosomic and control group were reviewed in depth for nationality,parity, maternal disease during pregnancy, maternal age, maternal weight gain,gender of newborn, previous child’s birth weight, gestational age, mode of deliveryand delivery complications. All mothers with twins, intra-uterine death or perinialmortality were excluded from this study.Results Macrosomic infants differ from the control group in terms of older maternalage (p