Research Finds Rapid Glycemic Control In Gestational Diabetes Can Reverse Child's Obesity Risk
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Swiftly achieving glycaemic control after a diagnosis of gestational diabetes can bring the baby's risk of obesity in childhood down to a level similar to that of children whose mothers did not have gestational diabetes. These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September).
Gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that can develop during pregnancy, affects 14% of pregnant women globally and is becoming more common, with those who are living with obesity, have a family history of diabetes and/or older at greater risk.
It usually goes away after birth but carries a range of risks during and after pregnancy. Children are also at higher risk of cardiometabolic complications later in the life, including obesity and diabetes.
“Achieving glycaemic control soon after the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and maintaining it through pregnancy, up to the delivery, is associated with reduced rates of perinatal complications,” says lead researcher Dr Assiamira Ferrara, Director of the Center for Upstream Prevention of Adiposity and Diabetes Mellitus, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA.
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