PubMed · 8846551
Diabetes.
Abstract
There is now strengthening evidence that meticulous control of maternal carbohydrate and fat metabolism before and during pregnancy in women with diabetes mellitus had positive benefits for the offspring, not only by reducing the incidence of congenital malformations, but also by diminishing fetal loss, reducing immediate neonatal complications and, in the long term, reducing unnecessary obesity, improving neuropsychological development and reducing the emergence of diabetes in the offspring at a relatively early age. Women who develop GDM are at a significant risk of developing NIDDM, and prevention of obesity, consumption of a high-fibre diet and possibly prophylactic hypoglycaemic therapy may reduce this otherwise inevitable progression, which will affect at least 50%.
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J N Oats. 1995. Diabetes.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0950-3552(05)80376-1
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