Low Birth Weight and Type 2 Diabetes Risk

A appendage psychiatry that confirms that underweight babies are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes unapproachable in energy plus identifies factors allied later than that increased risk.

The findings may help pinpoint which beast processes are disrupted by a low birth weight, eventually resulting in diabetes, the Brown University researchers said.


The chemical analysis authors looked at on top of 1,200 women plus type 2 diabetes and vis--vis 1,800 without the illness. Those who had been born when a low birth weight -- less than 6 pounds -- were 1.27 era more likely to have diabetes than those plus a birth weight of 6 to 8 pounds, and 2.15 period more likely to have diabetes than those following a birth weight of 8 to 10 pounds.

Factors linked as soon as increased risk of diabetes in the middle of those considering a low birth weight included insulin resistance; problems subsequent to blood vessel linings; and high systolic blood pressure, which is the intensity number in a blood pressure reading, according to the symbol.

The chemical analysis was published in the January issue of the journal Diabetologia.

"We are maddening to recognize what proportion of the risk attributable to low birth weight can indeed be explained by these biochemical intermediates, to submit to the relative importance of each passage," senior scrutiny author Dr. Simin Liu, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Brown, said in a academe circles news pardon.

The investigation was funded, in share, through a admit from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.