Exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes: 2016 evidence summary from the IOC expert group meeting, Lausanne. Part 2-the effect of exercise on the fetus, labour and birth

Kari Bø; Raul Artal; Ruben Barakat; Wendy Brown; Michael Dooley; Kelly R Evenson; Lene A H Haakstad; Karin Larsen; Bengt Kayser; Tarja I Kinnunen; Michelle F Mottola; Ingrid Nygaard; Mireille van Poppel; Britt Stuge; Gregory A L Davies; IOC Medical Commission

doi:10.1136/bjsports-2016-096810

Exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes: 2016 evidence summary from the IOC expert group meeting, Lausanne. Part 2-the effect of exercise on the fetus, labour and birth

Br J Sports Med. 2016 Nov;50(21):1297-1305. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096810. Epub 2016 Oct 12.

Authors

Kari Bø¹, Raul Artal², Ruben Barakat³, Wendy Brown⁴, Michael Dooley⁵, Kelly R Evenson^{6

7}, Lene A H Haakstad⁸, Karin Larsen⁹, Bengt Kayser¹⁰, Tarja I Kinnunen¹¹, Michelle F Mottola¹², Ingrid Nygaard¹³, Mireille van Poppel¹⁴, Britt Stuge¹⁵, Gregory A L Davies¹⁶; IOC Medical Commission

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
² Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Women's Health, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
³ Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte-INEF, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Centre for Research on Exercise Physical Activity and Health, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
⁵ The Poundbury Clinic, King Edward VII Hospital London, Dorchester, UK.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁸ Department of Sport Sciences, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
⁹ The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹⁰ Faculty of Biology and Medicine, Institute of Sport Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
¹¹ School of Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
¹² R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation-Exercise and Pregnancy Lab, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
¹³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
¹⁴ Institute of Sport Science, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
¹⁵ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Oslo, Norway.
¹⁶ Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 27733352
DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096810

Abstract

This is Part 2 of 5 in the series of evidence statements from the IOC expert committee on exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes. Part 1 focused on the effects of training during pregnancy and on the management of common pregnancy-related symptoms experienced by athletes. In Part 2, we focus on maternal and fetal perinatal outcomes.

Keywords: Exercise.

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