ArticlePloS one2013
Association of diabetes in pregnancy with child weight at birth, age 12 months and 5 years--a population-based electronic cohort study.
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- How Do the Different Types of Maternal Diabetes during Pregnancy Influence Offspring Outcomes?Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal Obesity, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Offspring's Body Mass Index Trajectories From Birth to Age 6 Years: Glucose in Relation to Women and Babies' Health (GrownB) Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2026Article
- Pregestational Diabetes Mellitus and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Assessment of neonatologists' competency in managing gestational diabetes complications: a cross-sectional analysis from China.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
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- Associations of Maternal Diabetes and Body Mass Index With Offspring Birth Weight and Prematurity.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Article
- Outdoor Air Pollution and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2019Review
- Long-term BMI and growth profiles in offspring of women with gestational diabetes.Diabetologia · 2018Article
- Growth and BMI during the first 14 y of life in offspring from women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus.Pediatric research · 2017Article
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backgroundThis study examines the effect of diabetes in pregnancy on offspring weight at birth and ages 1 and 5 years.
methodsA population-based electronic cohort study using routinely collected linked healthcare data. Electronic medical records provided maternal diabetes status and offspring weight at birth and ages 1 and 5 years (n = 147,773 mother child pairs). Logistic regression models were used to obtain odds ratios to describe the association between maternal diabetes status and offspring size, adjusted for maternal pre-pregnancy weight, age and smoking status.
findingsWe identified 1,250 (0.9%) pregnancies with existing diabetes (27.8% with type 1 diabetes), 1,358 with gestational diabetes (0.9%) and 635 (0.4%) who developed diabetes post-pregnancy. Children whose mothers had existing diabetes were less likely to be large at 12 months (OR: 0.7 (95%CI: 0.6, 0.8)) than those without diabetes. Maternal diabetes was associated with high weight at age 5 years in children whose mothers had a high pre-pregnancy weight tertile (gestational diabetes, (OR:2.1 (95%CI:1.25-3.6)), existing diabetes (OR:1.3 (95%CI:1.0 to 1.6)).
conclusionThe prevention of childhood obesity should focus on mothers with diabetes with a high maternal pre-pregnancy weight. We found little evidence that diabetes in pregnancy leads to long term obesity 'programming'.
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