Diabetes in Pregnancy and School-Age Developmental Outcomes for Offspring: A Statewide Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The impact of diabetes in pregnancy on offspring neurodevelopment is unclear. We investigate whether exposure to diabetes in utero is associated with developmental vulnerability or educational delay during primary school.

Research design and methods

We used population-level pregnancy and birth data from 2009 to 2021 from Victoria, Australia, linked with standardized national assessments. Adjusting for a range of maternal and childhood covariates, we investigated whether diabetes in pregnancy was associated with an altered risk of developmental vulnerability compared with no diabetes in the first year of full-time school (ages 4-6 years), defined as below the tenth centile in two or more domains in the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC), and altered educatio

SUBMITTER: Gordon HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12368389 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature