Gestational diabetes and lower test results
In a study from Université Laval, researchers compared the language skills of children from mothers with gestational diabetes (GD) to a control group. While nothing in the summary shows specifics, children whose mothers had GD exhibit poorer results on tests of verbal vocabulary and grammar. These findings are tempered by suggestions that:
…the impact of pregnancy-related diabetes on language development is not inevitable, as children of more educated mothers appear less affected.
The study says that it did control for household education/income and consumption of various drugs during pregnancy.
Following from this to another related topic, does this mean that Britain will consider to sterilizing obese women who are likely to develop GD? Their war on obesity suggests that it’s not beyond the realm of possibility especially as they relate obesity to terrorism and are starting to take obese children away from parents.
Link from Science Daily.
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