Sons Of Women With PCOS More Likely To Develop Obesity: Study
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Sons of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are three times more likely to develop obesity, a new study has shown. The study from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, said that it highlighted a previously unknown risk of passing PCOS-related health problems across generations through the male side of a family. The study is published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. Using registry data and mouse models, the researchers determined if and how PCOS-like traits are passed from mothers to their sons.
Just over 460,000 sons born in Sweden between July 2006 and December 2015 were included in the registry study. Of these, roughly 9,000 were sons of women with PCOS. The researchers then identified which of the children were obese. "We discovered that sons of women with PCOS have a threefold risk of obesity and of having high levels of "bad" cholesterol, which increases the risk of developing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes later in life," said l...