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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Luo Ting is snacking on a salt-free cracker in a Beijing maternity ward, part of a regimen to curb the glucose in her blood that threatens to cause lifelong harm to the baby she?s due to deliver this week.
Luo, a 29-year-old sales clerk, says she didn?t know pregnancy could trigger gestational diabetes until a test in April. Now she?s among 15 percent of expecting mothers in Beijing who develop the condition, which can spur excessive fetal growth and raises the diabetes risk for them both.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...r-portend-china-s-looming-disease-crisis.html
Luo, a 29-year-old sales clerk, says she didn?t know pregnancy could trigger gestational diabetes until a test in April. Now she?s among 15 percent of expecting mothers in Beijing who develop the condition, which can spur excessive fetal growth and raises the diabetes risk for them both.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...r-portend-china-s-looming-disease-crisis.html