By Tara Haelle
Source Medpagetoday
SAN ANTONIO — Limiting exposure to sugar starting in utero reduced risk and delayed onset of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in adulthood, a study showed.
Adults exposed to early-life sugar rationing in the U.K. for at least 19 months (including in utero) had a 38% reduced risk of type 2 diabetes (HR 0.62, 95% CI 0.55-0.69) and a 21% reduced risk of hypertension (HR 0.79, 95% CI 0.74-0.85) compared to those never exposed to rationing, reported Tadeja Gracner, PhD, of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, at the ObesityWeek annual meetingopens in a new tab or window. The findings were also published in Scienceopens in a new tab or window.
“In-utero exposure alone explained about a third of the total reduction in type 2 diabetes and hypertension risk compared to exposure in utero and beyond age 1,” the researchers reported. Further, adults exposed to sugar rationing prenatally through their first birthday had about a 4-year delay in type 2 diabetes diagnosis and a 2-year delay in hypertension diagnosis.
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