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Mother's obesity can cause malformations in her children.
2004 AUG 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study of more than 2,000 children of women with gestational diabetes (the diabetes that some women get during pregnancy) has revealed that obesity in mothers is one of the most decisive factors contributing to the appearance of congenital malformations in their children - even more so than the seriousness of the diabetes.
The research, published in the journal Diabetologia, has been carried out by a research team from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and l'Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain.
It has been known since the 1960s that children of women with diabetes before pregnancy have a higher possibility of having congenital malformations, which are primarily related with the mother's degree of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) during the period in which the embryo's organs are forming. In the children of women with gestational diabetes, which is first detected during pregnancy, the risk of malformations does not increase so much, but it still exists. In this case, during the period when the embryo's organs are forming the glucose levels are usually fairly unaltered.
The research team, headed by Rosa Corcoy, came to an unexpected conclusion after analyzing the relationship between the mother's glucose levels and congenital malformations in the children of mothers with gestational diabetes: Surprisingly, the body mass index, which indicates obesity, is more important for predicting malformations than other variables that indicate the seriousness of the maternal diabetes mellitus.
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