ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2024
Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age.
Article in International journal of obesity (2005), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Breastfeeding Intensity and Duration and Growth Trajectories in GDM Exposed Infants: The SWIFT Study.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- Dietary macronutrient substitutions and cardiometabolic outcomes in children with and without gestational diabetes exposure: a cross-sectional analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- 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
- Diabetes Fact Sheet 2025: Special Edition on Diabetes with Obesity and in Pregnancy.Diabetes & metabolism journal · 2026Article
- Advances in Research on Childhood-Obesity Associated With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of diabetes · 2026Review
- Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Modulates Adipose Tissue Remodeling and CTRP6 Expression in a Depot- and Sex-Specific Manner in Mouse Offspring.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Maternal Prepregnancy Overweight: Associations With Maternal and Offspring Weight 4-7 Years Postpartum.Journal of diabetes research · 2026Article
- Lifestyle Interventions for Treatment and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes in Adults: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Trajectory of Free Fatty Acids in Pregnancy According to First-Trimester Maternal Metabolic Status and the Presence of Gestational Diabetes.Metabolites · 2025Article
- Impact of Maternal Hyperglycemic and Hypertensive Disorders on Perinatal Outcomes Across the COVID-19 Pandemic.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Review
- Newborn DNA methylation age differentiates long-term weight trajectories: the Boston Birth Cohort.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- The Gut Microbial Regulation of Epigenetic Modification from a Metabolic Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Gestational diabetes mellitus and development of intergenerational non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) after delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivePrevious studies found conflicting results on the association between maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and childhood overweight/obesity. This study was to assess the association between maternal GDM and offspring's adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age.
methodsThe present study longitudinally followed 1156 mother-child pairs (578 GDM and 578 non-GDM) at 5.9 ± 1.2 years postpartum and retained 912 mother-child pairs (486 GDM and 426 non-GDM) at 8.3 ± 1.6 years postpartum. Childhood body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, body fat and skinfold were measured using standardized methods.
resultsCompared with the counterparts born to mothers with normal glucose during pregnancy, children born to mothers with GDM during pregnancy had higher mean values of adiposity indicators (waist circumference, body fat, subscapular skinfold and suprailiac skinfold) at 5.9 and 8.3 years of age. There was a positive association of maternal GDM with changes of childhood adiposity indicators from the 5.9-year to 8.3-year visit, and β values were significantly larger than zero: +0.10 (95% CI: 0.02-0.18) for z score of BMI for age, +1.46 (95% CI: 0.70-2.22) cm for waist circumference, +1.78% (95% CI: 1.16%-2.40%) for body fat, +2.40 (95% CI: 1.78-3.01) mm for triceps skinfold, +1.59 (95% CI: 1.10-2.09) mm for subscapular skinfold, and +2.03 (95% CI: 1.35-2.71) mm for suprailiac skinfold, respectively. Maternal GDM was associated with higher risks of childhood overweight/obesity, central obesity, and high body fat (Odd ratios 1.41-1.57 at 5.9 years of age and 1.73-2.03 at 8.3 years of age) compared with the children of mothers without GDM.
conclusionsMaternal GDM was a risk factor of childhood overweight/obesity at both 5.9 and 8.3 years of age, which was independent from several important confounders including maternal pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain, children's birth weight and lifestyle factors. This significant and positive association became stronger with age.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.