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Higher Gestational Diabetes Risk in Asian-White Couples?

Posted on October 04, 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Ronnie ComeauResearchers from Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the university's School of Medicine have evidence that Asian-white couples run a higher risk of gestational diabetes and caesarian births, compared with white couples.The researchers also found that Asian women whose partners are white are more likely than white women with Asian or white partners to have a caesarean delivery, as part of a broad analysis of perinatal outcomes among Asian, white and Asian-white couples.Does this mean the Asian gene of women is to blame? Or th...

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