Maternal smoking in pregnancy is linked to subsequent diabetes and obesity

Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor for the offspring developing early onset adult diabetes and obesity in later life. Cigarette smoking as a young adult is also independently associated with an increased risk of subsequent diabetes. Montgomery and Ekbom (p 26) suggest that in utero exposure to smoking results in life long metabolic dysregulation, possibly owing to fetal malnutrition or toxicity.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Relevant Article

Smoking during pregnancy and diabetes mellitus in a British longitudinal birth cohort
Scott M Montgomery and Anders Ekbom
BMJ 2002 324: 26-27. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ