Researchers at Temple University School of Medicine examined records from 6,550 women born at 37 to 44 weeks' gestation in 1974 and who had babies of their own in 1995 or 1996. Those who at birth had been in the bottom tenth percentile of standard weight charts for their gestational age were three to four times more likely to have gestational diabetes when pregnant themselves. The head of the research team theorized that if a woman is born small, it may have been caused by insufficient nutrition, and it compromised her internal organs. Perhaps as a result the pancreas doesn't have enough of the cells that produce insulin.
-Obstetrics & Gynecology, reported in American Baby, April 1999
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