Table 1.

Obesity and excessive gestational weight gain—the risk of development of the diseases for the mother and her offspring.

	Early Risk	Long-Term Risk
Mother	gestational diabetes mellitus	diabetes mellitus type 2
	gestational hypertension and preeclampsia	cardiovascular diseases
	caesarean delivery and vacuum/forceps delivery
Offspring	prematurity	cardiovascular diseases
	macrosomia	obesity
	Intensive Neonatal Care Unit admission after delivery	hypertension
	lower Apgar score	insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus type 2