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Treating Diabetes During Pregnancy Could Lead to Thinner Kids
Date:8/28/2007

other was treated, "they had the same risk" as the children of women who did not have gestational diabetes, Hillier said. "There was no difference in their risk."

Why would a mother's diabetes affect a child long after birth? The answer appears to lie in the child's metabolism, which develops during gestation and may be disrupted by the mother's high blood sugar levels, Hillier said.

The research is an "interesting first step," said Dr. Roger Unger, a diabetes specialist and a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. But, he added, it's difficult to wade through "an impossibly complex mixture of variables" and find a cause-and-effect relationship between gestational diabetes and childhood obesity.

More information

Learn more about gestational diabetes from the American Diabetes Association.



SOURCES: Teresa Hillier, M.D., endocrinologist and senior investigator, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Northwest and Hawaii, Portland, Ore.; Roger Unger, M.D., professor, internal medicine, Touchstone/West Distinguished Chair in Diabetes Research, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; September 2007, Diabetes Care


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