Gestational diabetes and childhood asthma in a racially diverse US pregnancy cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood asthma is a common chronic disease that likely has prenatal origins. Gestational diabetes alters maternal physiology and may influence fetal risk for childhood-onset disease. However, the association between gestational diabetes and child asthma is not well characterized.

Objective

To investigate the association between gestational diabetes and wheeze/asthma at approximately 4 years of age in a racially diverse US cohort.

Methods

We studied mother-child dyads enrolled prenatally in the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early Childhood study. Gestational diabetes was determined by medical chart review. At approximately 4 years of age, we assessed child respiratory outcomes including parent report of physician-diagnosed

SUBMITTER: Adgent MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328913 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature