Epidemiology

Bias Behind Data Relating Maternal Transmission To Type 2 Diabetes

Published in Diabetes Week, November 26th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - An international team of epidemiologists has listed inadequate study design and epidemiological bias as two reasons accounting for several studies associating maternal transmission with the onset of type 2 diabetes.

"Our findings do not support a strong excess maternal transmission of diabetes," concluded the multicenter team, which was headed by Barbara Thorand of the GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health in Neuherberg, Germany.

Genes are said to be an important factor in the formation of type 2 diabetes. Several studies have suggested maternal transmission rather than paternal...

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