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Maternal obesity and associated offspring diabetes mellitus

Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 15, pages 630–632 (2019)Cite this article

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A large registry-based study found that maternal overweight and obesity are associated with incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in offspring. The results align with those of prospective cohort studies and emphasize a need for interventions that target maternal weight during very early gestation, to optimize maternal and offspring health.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

    Wei Perng

  2. Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

    Wei Perng

  3. Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL), Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Emily Oken

  4. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Emily Oken

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Perng, W., Oken, E. Maternal obesity and associated offspring diabetes mellitus. Nat Rev Endocrinol 15, 630–632 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-019-0249-8

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