Adolescent manifestations of metabolic syndrome among children born to women with gestational diabetes in a general-population birth cohort.

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The association between maternal gestational diabetes (GDM) and manifestations of metabolic syndrome among Caucasian adolescents was studied with data from the population-based Northern Finland 1986 Birth Cohort. This is a longitudinal cohort study from early pregnancy until offspring age 16 years and includes data from a risk group-based GDM screen of pregnant mothers by an oral glucose tolerance test. Metabolic outcomes were compared between the offspring of women with GDM (OGDM; n = 95) an...

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Authors: Vääräsmäki, M; Pouta, A; Elliot, P; Tapanainen, P; Sovio, U

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: American journal of epidemiology
• Volume: 169
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1209-1215
• Publication date: 2009-05-01
• DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwp020
• EISSN: 1476-6256
• ISSN: 0002-9262
• Language: English
• Keywords: Glucose Tolerance Test; Prospective Studies; Linear Models; Metabolic Syndrome X; Cohort Studies; Humans; Phenotype; Diabetes, Gestational; Adolescent; Pregnancy; Finland; Confidence Intervals; Risk Factors; Female; Birth Weight; Male; Multivariate Analysis