A study found that pregnant women who slept less than 7 hours per night at 24 to 28 weeks’ gestation were more likely to have children with neurodevelopmental delays, with boys being the majority. The researchers emphasized the importance of health care providers assessing sleep duration in pregnant women. In other top stories in endocrinology, it was reported that people with type 1 diabetes are more likely to have a father with the condition, the FDA lifted a clinical hold on trials for a diabetes treatment, prediabetes before conception increases the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes, and patients with primary aldosteronism saw improvements in disease severity after adrenalectomy.
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Sleep may impact prenatal development; odds of diabetes diagnosis
