Key Messages
� Fetal macrosomia, resulting from fetal
hyperinsulinemia in response to maternal diabetes,
might be a predictor of later glucose intolerance.
� Maternal diabetes during pregnancy can lead to a
transgenerational transmission of diabetes risk.
� Fetuses of obese women with gestational diabetes
mellitus have a higher risk of developing macrosomia
than those of nonobese women with gestational
diabetes mellitus.�ٴ��t'