Science news articles about 'pregnancy diabetes'

ATLANTA (AP) -- Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research....

... as maternal hypertension during pregnancy. However, the study suggests that the impact of pregnancy-related diabetes on language development is not inevitable, as children of more educated mothers ...

A report has revealed a type of diabetes that affects women and babies during pregnancy is 20 per cent more common in Australia now than in 2000.

Treating mild diabetes that develops during pregnancy helps prevent serious problems that occur when the infants gain too much weight, a new U.S. study suggests.

... , which argues that certain conditions and diseases in adult life are programmed by factors during the pregnancy. Diabetes, coronary heart disease, and high blood pressure, for example, have been ...