Table 1.

Epidemiological studies on maternal obesity and neurodevelopment of the offspring.

Observations	References
Increased odds of developing autism spectrum disorders in offspring of obese.	[52,53,54,55]
Increases odds of cognitive deficits in children of obese women observed in cohorts.	[55,56,57,58,59,60]
Obese mothers have twice as likely to have a child with mental developmental delay.	[58,61]
An increase in autism in children was reported in prospective pregnancy cohorts	[62]
The maternal obesity was associated with schizophrenia in adult offspring in a large retrospective cohort study but other studies could not confirm this association.	[63,64]
A dose-dependent increase in relative risk of cerebral palsy as maternal BMI was observed.	[13,65,66,67]