A recent study determines that children born to obese mothers who developed gestational diabetes are more likely to be heavier at birth, be overweight, and be obese by the time they are 11 years old than are children born to mothers without this complication of pregnancy. Dr Sandra Hummell and colleagues at The Technical University in Munich, Germany, examined data from German studies involving 1,420 children born from 1989 to 2000. In the study population, 232 infants were born to mothers with gestational diabetes, 757 to women with type 1 diabetes, and 431 to nondiabetic mothers. Body measurements and blood samples from the children from birth until age 14 years were also analyzed.
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