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- Relationship to Diabetes
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As more women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, the number of children who develop diabetes or prediabetes may also increase, suggests a new study published in the journal Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is high blood sugar (diabetes) that occurs during pregnancy. Untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can lead to macrosomia (high birth weight), increases the risk very low blood glucose levels and breathing problems at birth, and increases the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life. According to the American Diabetes Association, gestation diabetes affects 18 percent of pregnancies. Rates of gestational diabetes have been increasing over the past couple of decades.
For the present study, researchers led by Dr. Sonia Caprio, Yale University School of Medicine, investigated the effects of glucose exposure on the newborn in the womb, at birth and later in life, specifically examining the risk in obese youths of developing impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or prediabetes, after exposure to GDM in the womb.
http://parentingpatch.com/increase-gestational-diabetes-may-increase-early-diabetes-among-children/
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is high blood sugar (diabetes) that occurs during pregnancy. Untreated or poorly controlled gestational diabetes can lead to macrosomia (high birth weight), increases the risk very low blood glucose levels and breathing problems at birth, and increases the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life. According to the American Diabetes Association, gestation diabetes affects 18 percent of pregnancies. Rates of gestational diabetes have been increasing over the past couple of decades.
For the present study, researchers led by Dr. Sonia Caprio, Yale University School of Medicine, investigated the effects of glucose exposure on the newborn in the womb, at birth and later in life, specifically examining the risk in obese youths of developing impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), or prediabetes, after exposure to GDM in the womb.
http://parentingpatch.com/increase-gestational-diabetes-may-increase-early-diabetes-among-children/