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Premature Babies Are At Higher Risk of Diabetes, Study Finds
According to MSNBC, diabetes risk may be slightly higher in premature babies. According to a Swedish study, children who spent less time in the womb had a slightly higher risk, less than 1 percent, of developing diabetes at a later time in their life. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 3 of every 25 babies are delivered prematurely. Premature babies face a lot of developmental risks, but diabetes could lead to other risk factors such as high blood pressure. The research team, along with Dr. Casey Crump of Stanford University, used a national prescription database to track the use of diabetes medications by 630,000 people in Sweden born between 1973 and 1979. Roughly 28,000 of those individuals were born premature, the study found. Crump’s team found that 15 out of 100 preemies developed diabetes by the time they were in their twenties and thirties….
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Preeclampsia Study Links Disorder to Autoimmune Enzyme
According to Business Week, a new research study found that women who develop preeclampsia might have an overabundance of a gene that helps regulate the body’s immune system. The study’s findings hope to improve screening and prenatal care of patients at risk and their unborn. The North Carolina State University researchers focused on preeclampsia as an autoimmune disorder, where the mother’s body regards the placenta as an unknown invader. The researchers compared genetic analyses of placenta from women with preeclampsia to women with normal pregnancies. The study found placentas from preeclampsia patients had genes associated with a particular autoimmune pathway, and there was more genes present than in women with normal placentas. A particular enzyme involved in sialic acid modification was upregulated, meaning there was more of it present, which causes disruption in the body’s ability to identify invaders from non-invaders. Such a regulation disruption results in the body attacking…
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Prevent Preterm Birth with Education
More than half a million babies births are considered preterm each year. Preterm means that birth occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy. This is a serious health risk for the baby which costs more than $26 billion in the United States each year. Preterm birth is also the leading cause of death in newborns and the babies who survive a preterm birth often experience health challenges throughout their lives including learning disabilities, cerebral palsy and other developmental and intellectual disabilities. A full term pregnancy is considered 42 weeks, and many of the important organs such as the brain and lungs are not fully developed before 37 weeks. Physicians and expectant mothers should discuss the risks of preterm birth and how to prevent it early in the pregnancy. Chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure can cause preterm births, yet when controlled and managed throughout pregnancy can allow…
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