Before her pregnancy, Katherine Hegedorn of Parma was a healthy marathon runner. But during her recent pregnancy, she developed gestational diabetes, or high blood sugar, which can affect the health ...

13, 2024 — Babies born to pregnant women with obesity are more likely to develop heart problems and diabetes as adults ... in mice sheds light on how thyroid hormone alters wiring in the brain.

Pregnancy induces normal physiologic changes that affect thyroid function and thyroid function testing. [13] Increased renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate lead to an increase in the ...