Women who smoke cigarettes in the early stages of pregnancy could put their daughters at risk for developing gestational diabetes and obesity in adulthood, according to recent study data published in Diabetologia.
Previous data have suggested that smoking is a preventable environmental exposure that may lead to various adverse outcomes among children that continue through adulthood. In this study, researchers from Sweden and the NIH collected data from the Medical Birth Register of Sweden for women born in 1982 or later who also gave birth to at least one child (n=80,189).
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