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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2004;292:789-790.

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Vancouver—As the obesity epidemic unfolds on a global stage, two new groups of patients find themselves in the spotlight: pregnant women and their developing offspring. Recent research links maternal obesity as well as type 2 diabetes to a spectrum of abnormal conditions that occur during fetal development. Many of these effects, such as fetal obesity and neural tube defects, can have lifelong repercussions.

At the annual meeting of the Teratology Society held here in June, scientists discussed the latest findings on adverse pregnancy outcomes related to maternal obesity and diabetes. They also stressed the need for more research in these areas.

Rates of both obesity and type 2 diabetes are increasing across populations, and women of childbearing age are among those affected. The reports from the meeting send a clear warning that such conditions during pregnancy seriously impair not only the health of the mother, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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