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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes in China, already a greater burden than in any other country, is probably being exacerbated by its one-child policy.
About 100 million families have just one child, the Chinese government says. That translates into an equal number of firstborns, a status that researchers are finding may be tied to conditions that raise obesity risk, said Chong Yap Seng, a scientist at Singapore?s National University Hospital.
Chong and colleagues in Beijing and Southampton, England, are studying the biological mechanisms that have conspired with diet and lifestyle changes to produce 92.3 million diabetics in China, almost four times as many as in the U.S. While firstborns start out smaller than siblings, they gain weight faster and are bigger as adults, a trajectory that increases obesity risk and may explain why China?s diabetes prevalence has more than tripled in a decade, said Chong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...diabetes-reveal-one-child-pitfall-health.html
About 100 million families have just one child, the Chinese government says. That translates into an equal number of firstborns, a status that researchers are finding may be tied to conditions that raise obesity risk, said Chong Yap Seng, a scientist at Singapore?s National University Hospital.
Chong and colleagues in Beijing and Southampton, England, are studying the biological mechanisms that have conspired with diet and lifestyle changes to produce 92.3 million diabetics in China, almost four times as many as in the U.S. While firstborns start out smaller than siblings, they gain weight faster and are bigger as adults, a trajectory that increases obesity risk and may explain why China?s diabetes prevalence has more than tripled in a decade, said Chong.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...diabetes-reveal-one-child-pitfall-health.html