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...mother's blood-sugar level during pregnancy may be a powerful - but easily controllable - contributor to childhood obesity, according to a large new study by researchers with Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research (CHR). The study, published in the September issue of Diabetes Care, found that mothers with untreated gestational diabetes - a form of the disease that occurs only during pregnancy - were nearly twice as likely to bear overweight children, compared with healthy moms. And the data showed that some mothers with "normal" blood-sugar readings were at risk as well: pregnant women with blood-sugar levels...
...than women at the low end of normal (with blood-sugar levels between 43 mg/dl and 94 mg/dl), and 28% more likely to bear children who become obese. "Even in what's considered normal, in the highest quartile there was an elevation in risk," says Dr. Teresa Hillier, a CHR endocrinologist and senior investigator and lead author of the study. "You could argue, should we consider lowering the criteria? One forty [mg/dl] is the typical cutoff [for diabetes]. Some ppl have argued that it should...
...Martin, 67, had long groomed himself for the national stage. The names in his personal Rolodex range from international bankers to Bono, the rock-star poverty crusader. But when he became PM in December 2003 after staging an internal party coup that swept his former boss, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, into retirement, he inherited an exhausted, divided party with its glory days behind it. Perhaps, conceded one party official in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, "We [Liberals] need a time-out." As the ice in Canada's political landscape begins to crack, they...
...BETTER BLOOD TEST FOR BABY In a study of 202 infants, published in J.A.M.A., doctors found that the so-called CHr test caught 83% of iron-deficiency cases, while the standard hemoglobin test found just...
...last week. They talked about the global economy but not about the falling U.S. dollar; about advancing global free trade but not about cutting agricultural subsidies; about weapons of mass destruction but not - heaven forfend - about Iraq. There was one topic, however, on which Messrs. Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien, Koizumi, Putin and Schröder talked real money: combatting aids in Africa, where it kills some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year...