C-sections = higher risk of diabetes in babies?
August 28, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Women's Health
Maybe this may make some women think twice about having Convenience C-sections.
According to researchers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, babies born via Cesarean section have a 20% higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes later in life, compared with their peers born vaginally. Type 1 diabetes is what used to be called insulin-dependent or juvenile diabetes.
The findings are still very preliminary, but you can read more about it in this article, C-section raises risk of diabetes for baby, study says.
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Tags: pregnancy blog, diabetes, type 1 diabetes, c-sections, cesarean sections
This is interesting. I have two cousins with diabetes and both were c-sections.