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Higher Maternal Sugar Levels Increases Risk Of Childhood Obesity |
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Written by Craig - GKA Staff
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007 |
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Treating gestational diabetes can break the link to childhood obesity. The largest study of its kind, this research shows that childhood obesity risk rises with a pregnant woman's blood sugar level and untreated gestational diabetes doubles a child's risk of obesity. Authors looked at 20,000 mothers and children, and found treating gestational diabetes lowers the child's risk of obesity to same level of a mother with normal blood sugar levels.
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