NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Smoking during pregnancy appears to affect children’s birthweight, and possibly their risk of becoming overweight, but it may not directly harm other aspects of physical and cognitive development, a large study suggests.
The findings, from a study of nearly 53,000 U.S. children born in the 1960s, found that those whose mothers [...]
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The relationship between diabetes and depression apparently cuts both ways: Not only are people with treated type 2 diabetes at a heightened risk for developing depression, individuals with depression are also at risk for developing diabetes.
The research revelation suggests that both doctors and patients need to be more aware of the dual risks.
"Doctors should have [...]
Hearing impairment may be a common, under-recognized complication of diabetes , suggests a U.S. study. “We found that hearing loss was much more common in people with diabetes than people without the disease. The hearing loss we detected did not seem to be caused by other factors such as exposure to loud noises, certain medicines, [...]
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