Father's diabetes medication has no relation with congenital diseases in children
It is generally believed that children of parents suffering from diabetes may also have an increased risk of this disease. However, a research has proved this wrong.
Diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, is a big concern for people, especially in families where parents are suffering from this disease. It is generally believed that children of parents suffering from diabetes may also have an increased risk of this disease. However, a research says that men suffering from type 2 diabetes who are planning a family can be assured that taking metformin medicine does not increase the risk of congenital disease in their child.
Based on more than 3 million pregnancies and published by BMJ, the findings suggest that metformin can be considered a suitable drug for managing sugar levels in men planning to have children. Metformin is used to treat type 2 diabetes patients. A recent Danish study suggested that those who are using metformin may have some congenital diseases in their baby (boy).
To understand how the study was conducted
, researchers from Taiwan and Norway attempted to evaluate the relationship between the two. They used national birth registries and prescription databases and identified 619,389 infants with paternal data during the period of sperm development (three months before pregnancy) in Norway during 2010-21 and 25,63,812 infants in Taiwan during 2004-18. Of these, the fathers of 2,075 (0.3 percent) children in Norway and 15,276 (0.6 percent) in Taiwan used metformin during the sperm development period.
No risk of congenital disease
Looking only at men with type 2 diabetes and taking into account the father's age and associated conditions, the team found that there was no increased risk of any congenital disease in children using metformin during the sperm development period in neither Norway nor Taiwan. The team from the National Taiwan University and the University of Oslo said the results could help doctors decide whether to choose metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes among men planning a family.
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