Overweight women are 6 times more likely to have children with ADHD

These disorders can be caused by a combination of genetic predispositions and environmental factors, including mother health and dietary habits, while she is pregnant, transmits Kosovas.

In the United States, more than half of pregnant women are overweight, putting them at risk because of diabetes.

According to the new Swedish study, even without diabetes, overweight mothers were 67 percent more likely to have children with mood disorders and stress than women who carried a healthy weight during pregnancy.

With existing diabetes, overweight mothers were six times more likely than other women to have ADHD, behavioral or autism issues. These children were also more than four times likely to have emotional disorders.

The mother's overweight endangers her and her child in some ways during pregnancy, yet the overweight epidemic continues to affect most pregnant American women.

This raises the risks she will develop diabetes, high blood pressure, and abortion.

Now, researchers have discovered another danger that can haunt her child throughout her life.

“We found visible risks only for obesity and diabetes treated with insulin, when they became pregnant”, said Cathharina Lavebrat, a researcher at the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden.

The beginning of the pregnancy did not imply any obvious effect on the risk of psychiatric disorders in children,” she added.

While the absolute danger of such problems was low, for example, less than one percent of children had autism, or ADHD results provide new evidence that the combined influence of obesity and subsequent diabetes can be worse than the situation itself, the authors wrote.

Research researchers examined the data of 650,000 births in Finland between 2004-2014. They followed children from birth until the end of the study, until the age of 11 on several occasions.

In general, almost 35,000 children, or about 5.4 percent, were diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder during the study period. Total growth delays were involved in such things as speech and motor skills, in addition to conditions such as autism, behavioral disorders, or ADHD.

Obese mothers were 69 percent more likely than women with normal weight to have children with neuro-developing disorders, and 88 percent are more likely to have children with attention/hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) or behavioral problems.

Otherwise, the study was not designed to confirm whether overweight or diabetes, or in combination, you can make women more likely to have children with psychiatric problems.