Childhood cognitive ability: relationship to gestational diabetes mellitus in India.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

Our aim was to test the hypothesis that gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in mothers is associated with poorer cognitive ability in their offspring in India.

Methods

During 1997 to 1998 maternal GDM status was assessed by OGTT at 30 +/- 2 weeks of gestation. Between 2007 and 2008, at a mean age of 9.7 years, 515 children (32 offspring of GDM mothers [ODM]; 483 offspring of non-GDM mothers [controls]) from the Mysore Parthenon birth cohort underwent cognitive function assessment using tests from the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children--Second Edition and additional tests measuring learning, long-term storage/retrieval, short-term memory, reasoning, attention and concentration, and visuo-spatial and verbal abilities.

Results

Compared with controls,

SUBMITTER: Veena SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3428884 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature