Overweight weight of the mother determines child

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17/11/2014

Already in the womb, the susceptibility to obesity in the offspring can be characterized. A long-term study shows that children from overweight mothers often have higher blood sugar levels during school hours.

Already in school high blood sugar levels
Already during pregnancy, overweight women can adversely affect the metabolic functions of their child. According to a report by the news agency dpa, this is the result of a study by the University Hospital Ulm, which was presented on Friday in Düsseldorf at the world's largest medical fair Medica. Thus, children of overweight mothers often have a higher blood sugar level in school. This makes in later life more prone to diabetes and obesity or obesity.

Weight of newborn dependent on the BMI of the mother
The physicians accompanied around 1,000 children and their mothers over a period of eight years since the beginning of the pregnancy. It has been shown that the weight of the newborn is already directly dependent on which body mass index (BMI) the mother had before starting the pregnancy. The BMI is determined by the quotient of body weight and height squared. According to the study, "overweight women give birth to even heavier children, and the embryo gains more weight than average early in development."

Weight of the mother determines the weight of the child
As the head of the study, Pediatrician Martin Wabisch, explained: „The weight of the mothers before they became pregnant later determines the weight of the elementary age children.“ Those examined eight-year-olds who were born of overweight mothers, for the most part had a higher insulin concentration in the blood than those of their peers whose mothers were of normal weight at the beginning of the pregnancy. These were "largely the same children for whom higher insulin levels in umbilical cord blood had been demonstrated during pregnancy."

Permanently characterized by congenital metabolic disorders
As further reported, the hormone insulin distributes the blood sugar in the body. If the insulin level is too high, it can lead to long-term type 2 diabetes - also called age-related sugar. At the same time, children with high insulin levels are at higher risk for overweight, according to the study. Even if they eat well in later adulthood, the affected children remain permanently affected by congenital metabolic disorders, as the study authors report. „The kids can not help it, and the metabolism can not be reprogrammed“, so Wabisch. Therefore, it is even more important to point prospective mothers on a healthy lifestyle. According to the experts, currently over one third of all pregnant women in Germany are overweight.

Budding mothers should avoid overeating
The fact that the predisposition to obesity is already shaped before birth in the womb, was also the result of a study by researchers at the University Hospital Charité in Berlin, which was presented last year. The scientists led by the study director Prof. Andreas Plagemann had evaluated and analyzed 66 research papers that were carried out worldwide on this topic. The analysis of data from more than 640,000 female and male subjects in all age groups up to 75 years from 26 countries and five continents showed that mothers can minimize their overweight risk to their offspring if they avoid overeating. (Ad)