Association between maternal diabetes and cardiac left ventricular structure and function in the neonate: a study from the Copenhagen Baby Heart Study

Background Prenatal exposure to maternal diabetes has been associated with increased risk of congenital heart defects. Purpose To evaluate whether maternal diabetes is associated with more subtle morphological and functional cardiac changes in neonates without congenital heart defects. Methods We included 17,869 newborns sampled from the Copenhagen Baby Heart Study, all of whom underwent transthoracic echocardiography within 30 days of delivery....