Smoking During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Obesity, Gestational Diabetes in daughters

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Women who smoke during pregnancy increase the risk of both obesity and gestational diabetes, in their daughters, concludes research published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. The study is by Dr Kristina Mattsson, Lund University, Sweden, and colleagues including Dr Matthew Longnecker from the National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences at the U.S.National Institutes of Health, North Carolina, USA.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130520185430.htm