Women with high blood sugar early in pregnancy may raise their baby\u2019s risk of developing a congenital heart defect, according to a study.<\/p>\n
While it has been long known that diabetes in pregnancy raises the odds for congenital heart defects in babies.<\/p>\n
The new findings reveal that risk extends even to women without diabetes in their earliest part of pregnancy, when the foetal heart is forming.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost women who have a child with congenital heart disease are not diabetic,\u201d said James Priest, assistant professor at the Stanford University in California.<\/p>\n
The results showed that the risk of giving birth to a child with a congenital heart defect was elevated by 8 per cent for every increase of 10 milligrams per deciliter in blood glucose levels in the early stages of pregnancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found that in women who don\u2019t already have diabetes or develop diabetes during pregnancy, we can still measure risk for having a child with congenital heart disease by looking at their glucose values during the first trimester of pregnancy,\u201d Priest added.<\/p>\n
For the study, published in The Journal of Paediatrics, the team examined medical records from 19,107 pairs of mothers and their babies born between 2009 and 2015, which included details of the mothers\u2019 prenatal care, including blood test results and any cardiac diagnoses made for the babies during pregnancy or after birth.<\/p>\n
The study may be helpful to measure blood glucose early in pregnancy in all pregnant women to help determine which individuals are at greater risk for having a baby with a heart defect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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