A highly significant positive correlation between maternal BMI and all morphologic parameters such as birth weight, length, head circumference and ponderal index was detected, whereas functional parameters such as APGAR values at 5 and 10 minutes or pH value of umbilical blood were not influenced by maternal BMI (see Table 3 ).
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Children on the neonatal ward exhibited a partially significant tendency towards increasing/decreasing values in morphologic parameters such as birthweight, length, head circumference according to maternal elevated/decreased BMI.