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Mom's diabetes linked to early diabetes in teens

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Babies who are exposed to their mother's obesity and diabetes while in the womb have a higher chance of developing Type 2 diabetes in their teens, new research suggests. Investigators studied 79 young people who'd been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes before age 20 and compared them to 120 non-diabetic youth. They found that 30 percent of the diabetics were exposed to the disease in the womb, versus only 6 percent of the non-diabetics. And 57 percent of the diabetics had been exposed to obesity in utero, versus 27 percent of the teens who did not have the disease. Read full story >

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