Posted on 02/19/2010 4:57:44 PM PST by cajuncow
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – While some research has suggested that obese women have an increased risk of having a baby with a birth defect, a new study shows that diabetes may at least partly account for the link.
Studies on whether obesity raises the odds of birth anomalies such as spina bifida, cleft palate and heart defects have so far come to conflicting conclusions. One question is whether obesity, per se, is the problem -- or whether certain factors associated with obesity are at work.
Type 2 diabetes, which is closely related to obesity, has been linked to a heightened risk of birth defects in a number of studies
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