Gestational diabetes ups obesity risk in offspring
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Children born to mothers who  developed diabetes during pregnancy are more likely to be  overweight or obese than their peers, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Children's tendency to become   overweight might have something to do with how their mothers   urge them to eat, a new study hints.
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Babies whose mothers had diabetes during pregnancy may be less able to form early memories than children whose mothers had normal pregnancies, a U.S. researcher said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - A new study confirms that weight gain during pregnancy affects the risk of spontaneous preterm birth, and suggests that both race and a history of preterm birth seem to influence the association.
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A new report says gestational diabetes is strongly linked to childhood obesity  -  but there's a lot you can do to treat the condition
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NEW YORK  - Although obesity and lack of physical activity both raise the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, obesity appears to be the more important factor, researchers report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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NEW YORK  - Obesity, other cardiovascular risk factors and parents with diabetes predict the development of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged adults, according to findings published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women who smoke face a  higher risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy -- a  condition known as gestational diabetes -- according to a new  study.
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NEW YORK  - When women who have diabetes or  are overweight become pregnant, they have an increased  likelihood of having to undergo a cesarean delivery, according  to a new report.
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The higher a pregnant woman's level of blood sugar, the greater the risk to her newborn &#151; whether the mother has diabetes or not, the largest study on the problem suggests. The findings released Friday may lead to more women being diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy and given stricter diet advice or medication to lower blood sugar.
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Non-Hispanic white children have the  highest rates of diabetes in the United States, U.S.  researchers said on Tuesday, and the disease appears to be more  common than expected.
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Evolution and the environment, not just   gluttony, has led to a global obesity pandemic, with an   estimated 1.5 billion people overweight -- more than the number   of undernourished people -- an obesity conference was told on   Monday.
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The children of overweight mothers are 15 times more likely to be obese by age 6 than children of lean mothers, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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The children of wealthier parents, particularly those with working mothers, are more likely to be obese or overweight, a study says.
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In women with diabetes,  increasing hemoglobin A1C levels early in pregnancy -- an  indicator of poor blood sugar control -- are associated with  increasing risk of poor pregnancy outcomes, according to a  report in the journal Diabetes Care.
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The children of overweight mothers  are 15 times more likely to be obese by age 6 than children of  lean mothers, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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A study shows how an increase in soft drink consumption may be linked with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In recent years, both diabetes and obesity have increased dramatically in the USA.