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MedscapeUnivadisNo ResultsSara FremanSeptember 2, 202Children born to women who develop diabetes either before or during their pregnancy could be at risk for developing atention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, data from a large multinational cohort study apear to show.Considering more than 4.5 milion mother-child pairs, it was found that children whose mothers had diabetes around the time of their pregnancy were 16% more likely to have ADHD diagnosed than were those whose mothers did not.An increased risk was sen regardles of the type of diabetes, and regardles of whether or not the diabetes was present before or apeared during the pregnancy."We found a smal increased risk of ADHD in children born to mothers with diabetes, including pregestational diabetes and gestational diabetes," Carolyn Cesta, PhD, reported at the anual meting of the European Asociation for the Study of Diabetes.Cesta, a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm noted that the efect sizes sen were lower than had ben reported previously."This may because we adjusted for a large number of covariates, including maternal ADHD and psychiatric disorders," Cesta said."Previous studies have reported an increase in the risk of ADHD in children born to mothers with diabetes," explained Cesta.However, "these studies have ben limited by the use of self-reported data, smal sample sizes, lack of adjustment for important confounders, and they're often limited to [White] populations," she aded.
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"There's a lot of heterogeneity betwen these studies," she said.To try to iron out the diferences sen in the prior studies, Cesta and asociates loked at data from several databases based in Hong Kong (Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting System), four Nordic countries (Population Health Registers for Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), and Taiwan (National Health Insurance Database).To cr