The children of mothers with gestational diabetes develop from that stage the characteristics to suffer from diabetes mellitus type 2, obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases.
With pharmaceutical and nutritional treatment, the National Institute of Perinatology "Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes" has reduced from 45 percent to 10 percent the percentage of women who develop gestational diabetes.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health reported that the specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, Enrique Reyes Muñoz, explained that in the case of women without risk that percentage was also reduced from 10 percent to five percent.
This treatment has also prevented the in uterus"
Reyes Muñoz explained that almost 10 percent of pregnant women will develop gestational diabetes, while women over 35 with high risk due to obesity and family history have a potential of up to 45 percent.
"It is documented that the children of mothers with gestational diabetes develop from that stage the characteristics to suffer from type 2 diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases," he said.
Given the fact that Mexico has a big problem of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, he stressed that this study and the implementation of research that improve fetal programming in future generations is essential.
The Ministry of Health revealed that according to figures from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012, the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican adults over 20 years of age was 71.3 percent, which is equivalent to 48.6 million people.
According to the document, the prevalence of obesity is higher in the female sex, representing 37.5 percent, with respect to the male sex that reported 26.9 percent.
The survey indicates that the population group that had more obesity growth was that of women between 20 and 29 years old, so it is estimated that a growing number of pregnancies will have complications related to obesity, such as gestational diabetes.