Infants born to mothers who develop diabetes during pregnancy are at increased risk for metabolic changes associated with heart attacks and stroke, Chinese researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.
Such children “had significantly higher blood pressure levels and lower HDL ‘good’ cholesterol levels at follow-up,” lead investigator Dr. Wing Hung Tam told Reuters Health.
Tam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and colleagues studied 63 children born to mothers with diabetes during pregnancy, or gestational diabetes,” and 101 children whose mothers did not have diabetes.
http://www.healthcentral.com/high-blood-pressure/news-277896-66.html
This entry was posted
on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am and is filed under Risk Factors.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a reply