Study uncovers the placenta’s role in predicting the future disease in children – Mental Daily

In the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes, a team at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus shined a spotlight on the placenta’s role in the formation of metabolic disorders later in childhood.
In the study, researchers highlighted how 50 percent of adult cases of type 2 diabetes are known to have been caused by exposure within the uterus of pregnant women with a history of the same disease.
Containing 1,410 female participants during a stage of pregnancy, the Healthy Start longitudinal…

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