A study reveals that children exposed to tobacco smoke while in the womb are predisposed to developing diabetes as adults.

In the study, published Feb 9 in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, women whose mothers smoked while pregnant were two to three times as likely to be diabetic as adults. Dads who smoked while their daughter was in utero also contributed to an increased diabetes risk for their child, but more research is needed to establish the extent of that risk.

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