A strength of the present study is that it included an unselected cohort
of a group of women from all obesity classes who received no dietary
counseling or intervention, as well as a large group of randomly
chosen non-obese women, thereby minimizing the risk of selection
bias. Previous findings of an association between obesity and an elevated
risk of large-for-gestational-age newborns, PIH, pre-eclampsia,
and cesarean delivery [5,25–27], indicating that the population assessed
resembles others