Gestational diabetes linked to higher rates of diabetes in offspring

A new study shows that children born to mothers who had gestational diabetes are nearly twice as likely to develop diabetes by the age of 22. Researchers looked at two groups of more than 36,500 families each — one group where mothers had gestational diabetes and another where they didn’t — and 234 kids in the gestational diabetes group went on to develop diabetes, compared to 125 kids in the other group. A caveat: The authors did not have access to data about behaviors such as smoking and food intake, which could help explain the differences that the authors observed.