Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children Prenatal and Early Infancy Risk Factors
Among Native Canadians

T. Kue Young, MD, PhD; Patricia J. Martens, MSc, PhD; Shayne P. Taback, MD;
Elizabeth A. C. Sellers, MD; Heather J. Dean, MD; Mary Cheang, MMath; Bertha
Flett, RN
From the Departments of Community Health Sciences (Drs Young, Martens, and
Taback and Mss Cheang and Flett) and Pediatrics and Child Health (Drs
Taback, Sellers, and Dean), Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba and
the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg; and the Department of Public Health
Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (Dr
Young).

"Breastfeeding reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes among Native Canadian
children and should be promoted as a potential intervention to control the
disease."

"The onset of type 2 diabetes, previously thought of as an adult disease, is
occurring at increasingly younger ages in diverse populations.  To date,
only one study, among the Pima Indians, has reported on maternal and early
infancy risk factors.  We conducted a case-control study on Native Canadian
children and identified maternal diabetes (both preexisting type 2 and
gestational) as a strong risk factor and prolonged breastfeeding as a strong
protective factor, with a child who was breastfed for more than 12 months
having only 24% of the risk of diabetes compared with a bottle-fed child.
This study suggests that there are preventive strategies that can be
incorporated in existing prenatal and infant health care programs to address
a new health threat."

You can read the abstract of this article at:
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/issues/v156n7/abs/poa20044.html
Subscribers to Arch Pediatr Adol Med can access the whole article. Otherwise
you will have to obtain a copy from a medical library.

Sincerely,
Janice Reynolds

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