Assessing the Impact of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Among Women With Type 1 Diabetes on Overweight/Obesity in Their Adolescent and Young Adult Offspring: A Pilot Study

Assessing the Impact of Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Among Women With Type 1 Diabetes on Overweight/Obesity in Their Adolescent and Young Adult Offspring: A Pilot Study

Aims/hypothesis: We sought to determine the impact of intrauterine exposure to excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) on overweight/obesity in adolescent/young adult offspring of women with type 1 diabetes mellitus (TIDM).Methods: In 2008, a pilot study was conducted among 19 randomly-selected adol...

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Main Authors: Ketrell L. McWhorter, Katherine Bowers, Lawrence Dolan, Ranjan Deka, Chandra L. Jackson, Jane C. Khoury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
Subjects:
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
gestational weight gain
overweight
obesity
offspring
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fendo.2018.00713/full

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