High infant birth weights seen in Latinos
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NEW YORK  - The weight of the mother before pregnancy, as well as additional weight gained during pregnancy, are often excessive and blood sugar abnormalities are common, in women of Mexican descent who are living in the U.S., researchers report. These factors help explain the high infant birth weights seen in this group, according to the study findings published in American Journal of Public Health.
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SUNDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- There's a new bilingual handbook designed to help Hispanic parents in the United States recognize attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their children.
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Overweight women are known to  have a greater chance of giving birth to a larger-than-normal  baby. But new research suggests that these odds stay higher  even when a woman loses weight before pregnancy.
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NEW YORK  - Findings from a new study suggest that both high and low birth weights increase the risk of testicular cancer in men. The reason for this finding is unclear.
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Women who are overweight or obese before becoming pregnant generally spend a longer time in labor than thinner women do, a new study suggests.
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Women who were underweight when they were born have an increased risk of severe pre-eclampsia during pregnancy, a large Swedish study suggests.
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Dec.14, 2004 -- After 10 years in the US, immigrants start to gain weight, according to a new study. While immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the US population, little is known about weight gain among them.
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Investigators have found that  children, whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI)  prior to pregnancy or a large mid-upper arm circumference in  late pregnancy, also had higher levels of body fat at the age  of 9 years than other children of the same age. The amount of  weight mothers put on during pregnancy, however, had no effect  on their child&#39;s body fat.
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NEW YORK  - In the US, many mothers who  have "no indicated risk" for a difficult vaginal birth are  having caesarean deliveries -- and the rate is rising year by  year -- according to a report in the British Medical Journal.
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NEW YORK  - Pregnant women who put on more  pounds than generally recommended are more likely to undergo a  Cesarean delivery, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Weight gain above guidelines   during pregnancy is common, according to researchers, and   infants born to women with high weight gain tend to have worse   outcomes.
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NEW YORK  - Bigger babies seem to have a  greater risk of developing certain cancers as adults, a new  study finds.
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Hefty Updated A Mexican woman has given birth to an unusually large baby. Dubbed "Super Tonio", the baby weighed in at a massive 6.6kg when he was delivered by staff at the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez hospital in Cancun, Mexico.â¦
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Children born to mothers who  developed diabetes during pregnancy are more likely to be  overweight or obese than their peers, according to a new study.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.  Francisca Ramos dos Santos, 38, gave birth to the healthy boy named Ademilton on Tuesday at a hospital in Salvador, 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo.
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A collection of genes involved in early development may help explain why black babies are more at risk of sudden infant death syndrome than other US groups, researchers said on ...
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CHICAGO -- Immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life may actually be harming their health. A newly released study finds that obesity is relatively rare in immigrants when they arrive