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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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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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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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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NEW YORK  - Some seasonal patterns in when  a diagnosis of type I insulin- dependent diabetes is made in  school-age children may reflect the parents' response during  holidays and weekends, as well as the availability of  healthcare services, according to Scottish researchers.
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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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Type 1 diabetics who have a sibling with diabetic kidney disease have twice the risk of also developing this complication, according to a new report.
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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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Around 80 per cent of diabetic children in England may face complications in later life because their blood sugar levels are too high.
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MONDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that diabetes -- not obesity -- puts people at risk of developing critical illness and dying early.
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NEW YORK  - Children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, like adults, are at risk for developing complications from the disease. However, these complications are expected to develop earlier in young patients, experts say.
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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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NEW YORK -- A new, large study suggests that treating women who develop diabetes during pregnancy greatly reduces the chances that their baby will become obese during childhood.
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NEW YORK  - People with type 1 diabetes who smoke are more than twice as likely to have an episode of severe hypoglycemia, or very low blood sugar, as those who have never smoked, according to a new study.
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Oct. 18, 2004 -- Premature babies may be less likely to need blood transfusions if their umbilical cords are cut a bit later than normal.
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Postnatal (after birth) growth  problems, especially when associated with prenatal (before  birth) growth problems, are linked to lower physical size,  cognitive scores, and academic achievement at age 8, according  to results of a study.
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NEW YORK  - When women who have diabetes or  are overweight become pregnant, they have an increased  likelihood of having to undergo a cesarean delivery, according  to a new report.