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Published on Wednesday, 10 August 2011
An Editorial in the British Medical Journal [BMJ] calls for better GP training to reduce the " worring number of high risk pregnancies - such as obesity and maternal deaths. A number of obstetric medicine professors signed the editorial conrfirm that older women are more likely to be obese, have hypertension or be predisposed to gestational diabetes and thromboembolism.. The team proposes increasing the number of obsteric physicians and insists that GPs and other doctors shold be trained in obstetrics [source BMJ]