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Gestational Diabetes and Childhood Obesity

Women who develop pregnancy-related (gestational) diabetes and are not treated for it are more likely to produce overweight children, according to a new study by the American Diabetes Association. Researchers tested 10,000 women and children. After following up 5-7 years later, they found that children born to mothers with poorly controlled high blood sugar were 89 percent more likely to be overweight and 82 percent more likely to be obese than children whose pregnant mothers had normal blood sugar. The good news: the risk decreased in children whose mothers were treated for gestational diabetes.

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