News tagged with diabetic children
Children in public housing play outdoors more
Young children living in urban public housing spend more time playing outdoors than other urban children, according to researchers at Rice University, Columbia University and Princeton University.
Feb 17, 2011 |
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How mom's health may increase risk of kidney disease
Children with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) are more likely to have mothers who were obese or had diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 43rd Annual Meeting and Scientific ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Childhood obesity linked to increased risk of adult cardiovascular and metabolic disorders
Mounting evidence linking childhood obesity to an increasing risk of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other cardiovascular and metabolic disorders in adulthood is clearly presented in a comprehensive review article ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Children's gut bacteria linked to type 1 diabetes
University of Florida researchers have found that the variety of bacteria in a child’s digestive tract is strongly linked to whether that child develops type 1 diabetes. The connection could eventually give doctors an early ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Pediatricians can help parents recognize overweight preschoolers
Parents are more likely to underestimate their preschool children's weight when pediatricians do not tell them their children are overweight or gaining weight too fast, a study by the University of South Florida and Johns ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Parents' physical inactivity influences children
Children are more likely to watch high levels of television if their parents do, but parents do not need to be physically active to help their children to be active, a new study has found.
May 25, 2010 |
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Definitive diabetes indicator deceptively high in African-American children
Researchers at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and Children's Hospital of New Orleans have found that there is a major difference in the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) response to blood glucose between African-American ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 04, 2010 |
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Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages
Extreme obesity is affecting more children at younger ages, with 12 percent of black teenage girls, 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys, 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls now classified as extremely obese, according ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Childhood obesity prevention should begin early in life, possibly before birth
Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought—perhaps even before birth—especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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Genetic health risks in children of assisted reproductive technology
More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first "test tube baby" in 1978. While the majority of these children are healthy and normal, as a group ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Task force: Screen kids, obesity treatment works
(AP) -- An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight - a move that could transform how doctors deal ...
Jan 18, 2010 |
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Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity
Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Diabetic episodes affect kids' memory
Children who have had an episode of diabetic ketoacidosis, a common complication of diabetes, may have persistent memory problems, according to a new study from researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Girl's rare form of diabetes leads to injection-free treatment for some
Three years after she made medical history and was freed from painful insulin injections, 9-year-old Lilly Jaffe is just beginning to understand how much her story changed the course of diabetes research and treatment.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Children with fatter midsections at increased risk for cardiovascular disease
Children with more fat around their midsections could be at a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life, researchers say.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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