Fetus Of Mother With Gestational Diabetes May React More Slowly To Sounds After The Mother Consumes Glucose, Study Finds.

reports that the fetus “of a mother with gestational diabetes reacts more slowly to sounds after the mother has consumed glucose, according to” research published online Oct. 14 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Investigators examined “how the fetuses of 12 women with gestational diabetes – and a control of 28 normal glucose-tolerant participants – responded to auditory sounds after taking 75 g of glucose,” finding that an hour “after consuming glucose, fetal latencies were longer in the diabetes group than in the normal glucose group (296±82 milliseconds versus 206±74 ms; P=0.001).” https://mail.google.com/_/scs/mail-static/_/js/k=gmail.main.en.xfAJ2j1ormQ.O/m=m_i,t,it/am=PiPeSMD8v_cHsc4QoF36QIW999_vLlL87MPj__cmgGSvAP5v9v8A_g_ei76Q/rt=h/d=1/t=zcms/rs=AHGWq9BtEye7T4sB0gBQxe-Y9aM8kWuB7A