A new study
out of Canada suggests that children whose mothers were diagnosed with
gestational diabetes when they were in utero are twice as likely to
have language delays in childhood. The researchers, led by Ginette
Dionne, a psychology professor at Laval University in Quebec, compared
221 children born to diabetic mothers with 2,612 whose mothers were not
diabetic during pregnancy; while 13% of the children in the control
group evinced some language delay, 26% of the diabetic mothers'
children did. The study controlled for such factors as smoking, birth
weight, and maternal age and educational level.
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