Maternal Chronic Hypertension Elevates the Risk for Long-Term Selected Endocrine and Metabolic Morbidity in the Offspring, Particularly Childhood Obesity.

Conclusions: Maternal chronic hypertension appears to be an independent and a significant risk factor for long-term pediatric endocrine and metabolic morbidity, and specifically for childhood obesity, in the offspring. PMID: 32589465 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Childhood Obesity - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Tags: Child Obes Source Type: research