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CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) – A Northwestern Medicine study found that children aged 10 to 14 years of women with untreated gestational diabetes were more likely to suffer from prediabetes and obesity than children whose mothers did not have higher blood sugar.
The large international monitoring study of hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy events (HAPO FUS) involved 4,160 children aged 10 to 14 years who completed all or part of a glucose tolerance test by oral and whose mothers had gestational diabetes at 28 weeks of pregnancy.
"Our study shows that" regardless of the mother's weight or genetic predisposition to diabetes, a mother's blood sugar level during pregnancy independently increases the risk of obesity and of glucose intolerance in his child, "said principal investigator Boyd Metzger, professor emeritus of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
"The mother's glucose metabolism during her pregnancy affects her child's glucose metabolism," Metzger said. "The fact that these conditions in the 11-year-old child is related to the mother's glucose level during pregnancy is another reason for gestational diabetes to be identified and treated," Metzger added.
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which a non-diabetic woman develops high blood sugar during pregnancy. It increases the risk of pre-eclampsia, depression, caesarean section and stillbirth. Almost 20% of women develop gestational diabetes, including high blood glucose, during pregnancy.
The study was published Jan. 17 in the journal Diabetes Care.
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