Obesity rates among women in Latin America are particularly high (29% in 2016), and the region holds the second-highest rate of teen pregnancies in the world, with an estimated 18% of teen pregnancies among women under 20 years old, according to The United Nations Population Fund. Studies of adult women have found associations between teen pregnancy and obesity later in life, but it’s not entirely clear why these two phenomena are related.
Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Brazil teamed up to explore the possible associations between teen pregnancy and obesity. Their findings resulted in a publication in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Read More…