Diabetes News – Newsletter for November 21, 2010

Childhood kidney disease linked to maternal diabetes, obesity

WASHINGTON – A new study has found that kids with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are more likely to have mothers who were obese or had diabetes during pregnancy.

The study by Christine W. Hsu, (University of Washington, Seattle) and colleagues included more than 4,000 patients with childhood CKD-diagnosed at age 21 or younger-in Washington State. … Read : Childhood kidney disease linked to maternal diabetes, obesity.

Dining out ‘ups diabetes risk’

SYDNEY – Researchers has claimed that corporate lunches and dinners at restaurants dishing up rich, fatty foods, coupled with sedentary working lives are responsible for an alarming rise of diabetes in young men.

Dr Neale Cohen, of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, said many patients were unaware meals at upmarket restaurants were often as … Read this article on Gaea Times at : Dining out ‘ups diabetes risk’.

Baby fat can be a harbinger of serious disease later on

WASHINGTON – Being overweight as a child is a strong predictor of diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk in early adulthood, says a new article.

Authors Megan Moriarty-Kelsey and Stephen Daniels, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, caution that the rising prevalence of obesity …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Baby fat can be a harbinger of serious disease later on.