Maturation is a continuum and any preset gestational age or early term deliveries cannot be assumed to provide a clear separation between immaturity and mature.
Increase in BMI Before Second Pregnancy Increases Diabetes Risk
Both pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain are known risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus.
Both pre-pregnant body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain are known risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus.
‘Early-term infants had 64% more neonatal intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, more than four times the mechanical ventilation or intubation risk, and other significant excesses in morbidity compared with term infants.’
The study found how early-term deliveries impacted pediatric health. "We found that hospitalizations up to the age of 18 involving endocrine and metabolic morbidity were found to be more common in the early-term group as compared with the full-term group, especially at ages five and older," says Prof. Eyal Sheiner, M.D., Ph.D., a vice dean of the BGU Faculty of Health Sciences (FOHS) and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Soroka University Medical Center. Obesity was also found to be more frequent in the early term group, in addition to the type I diabetes mellitus being more common in early term children above the age of five. "Pregnancies ending at early term were more likely to be complicated by hypertensive disorders and maternal diabetes (both gestational and pre-gestational). Deliveries were more often cesarean, and mean birth weight was significantly smaller," Dr. Sheiner says.
Babies born early term are more likely to be less than 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg) at birth. The researchers concluded that such diseases may further give rise to other associated diseases, increasing one's long term health expenditures and decreasing the life span. The findings have been published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
CRISPR Gene Therapy Via Skin Transplant Treats Diabetes, Obesity
A novel form of gene-therapy done through skin transplantation treats two related and extremely common human ailments such as type-2 diabetes and obesity.
A novel form of gene-therapy done through skin transplantation treats two related and extremely common human ailments such as type-2 diabetes and obesity.
Gut Plays A Major Role in Type 2 Diabetes
The gut plays an important role in the development of Type 2 diabetes, which is spurred by overeating, increased blood glucose levels and impaired beta cell function.
The gut plays an important role in the development of Type 2 diabetes, which is spurred by overeating, increased blood glucose levels and impaired beta cell function.
All Risk Factors of Prediabetes Are Not Possible to Identify
Prediabetes develops when your body begins to have trouble using the hormone insulin, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or it doesn’t use it well.
Prediabetes develops when your body begins to have trouble using the hormone insulin, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or it doesn’t use it well.
