Contribution of obesity to racial and ethnic disparities in the risk of fetal myelomeningocele: a population-based study.

Background: Prepregnancy obesity and racial-ethnic disparities has been shown to be associated with meningomyelocele.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the association of maternal periconceptional factors, including race-ethnicity and prepregnancy body mass index, with the prevalence of isolated fetal myelomeningocele.

Methods: This was a population-based cross-sectional study using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention birth data from 2016 to 2021.