Reuters (8/9, Rapaport) reports, “Pregnant women who have both severe obesity and diabetes may be more likely to have children with autism,” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), and “other psychiatric disorders than mothers who don’t have either condition during pregnancy,” research indicated.
Healio (8/9, Thiel) reports, “Pregestational diabetes mellitus combined with severe maternal obesity was associated with risk for children’s psychiatric and mild neurodevelopmental disorders, compared with diabetes or obesity separately,” researchers concluded after using “nationwide registry data of all live births in Finland from 2004 and 2014 (n = 649,043).” The findings were published online Aug. 9 in Pediatrics.
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— “Obesity, diabetes in pregnancy may raise kids’ risk of psychiatric disorders, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters, August 09, 2018.