Women who are glucose-intolerant during their pregnancies will have children who are born larger and fatter than women who aren’t, and those children will carry a greater risk of obesity and diabetes as they themselves reach adulthood. This includes not just women who are diabetic before pregnancy or become diabetic during pregnancy—a condition known as gestational diabetes—but obese women or women who gain a lot of weight in pregnancy. All these women will have higher blood sugar on average than women who remain lean and healthy; their triglycerides will be higher as well. This would explain
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