New study gets beyond BMI in pregnancy to gauge child’s risk of obesity
A study of pregnant women suggests that there are better ways than BMI to assess their children's risk of obesity.
Obesity and diabetes in mothers have traditionally been considered risk factors for the child to also develop obesity. But a new study suggests that more narrow measures of health during pregnancy could help better assess that risk.
Researchers grouped pregnant women based on specific metabolic traits and found that insulin resistance was associated with the highest risk, compared with other traits such as high cholesterol and triglycerides, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open on Tuesday.
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