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20

Mom's diabetes tied to early diabetes in offspring - Reuters India- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies who are exposed to mom’s diabetes and obesity while in the womb are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in adolescence, according to new research. To prevent “youth-onset” type 2 diabetes, “we may need to take a life course approach, targeting, in addition to childhood obesity, the increasing number of women with pregnancies complicated by obesity and diabetes,” researchers conclude. The adjusted odds for type 2 diabetes was roughly 7-fold higher with exposure to maternal diabetes and more than 3-fold higher with exposure to maternal overweight/obesity. Dabelea and colleagues estimate that 47 percent of youth-onset type 2 diabetes can be attributed to prenatal (before birth) exposure to maternal diabetes and obesity. The association between offspring diabetes and maternal obesity was attenuated after accounting for childhood BMI, indicating, the researchers say, that maternal obesity increases the probability of childhood obesity, which in turn heightens the risk of diabetes. Thomson Reuters is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters. Read Childhood Obesity

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