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If mothers were overweight or followed an unhealthy diet in pregnancy, they may have programmed their daughter to be biologically more at risk of obesity, UK researchers say.
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Girls who are born to mothers with high BMI and excess adiposity are at high risk of themselves becoming overweight/obese or having unfavorable body composition early in childhood, say researchers.
According to a new study published in the Endocrine Society s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, women with obesity might share the disease s risk with their daughters but not with their sons.