Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
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Comparative Study
Mortality and morbidity in offspring of mothers with diabetes compared with a population group: a Danish cohort study with 8-35 years of follow-up.
To assess mortality and morbidity in the offspring of mothers with diabetes compared with a control cohort of offspring of mothers without diabetes. ⋯ The offspring of mothers with and without diabetes had almost identical mortality. The increased morbidity was restricted to the first 2 years of life, and was primarily attributable to a few individuals with very severe but probably non-diabetes-related disease burden. The large majority of offspring of mothers with diabetes experienced health conditions similar to those not exposed to diabetes.