Article
Relationship between increased relative birthweight and infections during pregnancy in children with a high-risk diabetes HLA genotype.
Diabetologia - 1 Jun 2007
Larsson H E, Lynch K, Lernmark B, Hansson G, Lernmark A, Ivarsson S-A
Abstract excerpt
AIMS/HYPOTHESIS: Children with high-risk type 1 diabetes HLA genotype have increased risk of high relative birthweight (HrBW), while cord blood islet autoantibodies decrease the risk. As gestational infections may affect offspring type 1 diabetes risk, the aims were to test whether: (1) children of mothers reporting gestational infections have increased HrBW; (2) gestational infections explain islet autoantibody...
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