Preemies Seen Prone to 'Pre-Diabetes'
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NEW YORK  - Children who were born  prematurely, regardless of their actual birth weight, have a  reduction in insulin sensitivity -- a pre-diabetic condition  that can lead to full-blown diabetes.
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Diabetes is striking growing numbers  of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to  diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly  with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday.
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Infections shortly after birth are a significant cause of cerebral palsy and other brain-development disorders in premature babies, a study found.
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Non-Hispanic white children have the  highest rates of diabetes in the United States, U.S.  researchers said on Tuesday, and the disease appears to be more  common than expected.
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Women with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk for several poor pregnancy outcomes compared with the general population, and with women who have type 1 diabetes, a Danish study shows.
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NEW YORK  - In adults, the development of insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes, is influenced more by current body weight than by birth weight, results of a study in twins suggests.
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Pregnant women with diabetes tend to have overly large babies, which isn't good for either party. An Israeli team has now shown that the problem can be avoided if mothers strictly control their blood sugar levels during pregnancy.
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Children with a clustering of  cardiovascular risk factors that define the so-called metabolic  syndrome are very likely to have the syndrome in mid-adulthood,  or even overt heart disease or diabetes, according to a new  study.
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It&#39;s well known that diabetes doubles the risk of dying from heart disease. Two large international studies now say that heart risk increases much before the diabetes stage, when the sugar levels are high but have not crossed the marker for diabetes.
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A simple urine test during pregnancy could someday predict which women are likely to develop dangerously high blood pressure called pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills hundreds of mothers-to-be each year in the United States and leads to 15 percent of all premature births, researchers say.
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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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Among pregnant women with type  1 diabetes, the incidence of mild or severe declines in blood  glucose (hypoglycemia) is highest in early pregnancy, and  metabolic control tends to be tighter in the last part of  pregnancy, according to results of a study published in the  journal Diabetes Care.
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NEW YORK  - 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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Pregnant women who smoke face a higher risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy -- a condition known as gestational diabetes -- according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - When a child develops diabetes,  it's critical to know if it's the type that requires insulin  treatment or the other version that can be controlled with diet  and exercise.
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When a child develops diabetes, it&#39;s critical to know if it&#39;s the type that requires insulin treatment or the other version that can be controlled with diet and exercise.
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For preschool children with type 1 diabetes, twice-daily insulin injections do not adequately control blood sugar levels, researchers report. They found these kids had frequent and prolonged episodes of either low or high blood sugar.