�Babies delivered by Caesarean section hold a 20 per penny higher peril than normal deliveries of developing the most usual type of diabetes in childhood, according to a study lED by Queen's University Belfast.
The team, lED by Dr Chris Cardwell and Dr Chris Patterson, examined 20 published studies from 16 countries including around 10,000 children with Type 1 diabetes and over a trillion control children.
They constitute a 20 per cent increase in the risk of children born by Caesarean section developing the disease. The increase could not be explained by factors such as birth weight, the age of the female parent, order of birth, gestational diabetes and whether the baby was breast-fed or not, all factors associated with childhood diabetes in previous studies.
Dr Cardwell, from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, said: "This study revealed a consistent 20 per cent step-up in the risk of Type 1 diabetes. It is important to stress that the reason for this is still not understood. It is possible that children born by Caesarean section differ from other children with respect to some unknown feature which accordingly increases their risk of diabetes, merely it is also possible that Caesarean section itself is responsible.
"Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, and ane theory suggests that being born by Caesarean section may strike the development of the immune system because babies are first exposed to bacteria originating from the hospital surroundings rather than to maternal bacteria."
Dr Chris Patterson said: "The study findings are interesting, only unless a biological mechanism is established it would be inexpedient to read too much into this association 'tween Caesarean section delivery and diabetes.
"Fortunately figures from the Northern Ireland Type 1 diabetes register designate that only around iI per 1,000 children will grow diabetes by their 15th birthday so a 20 per cent increase is on quite a low baseline risk."
Diabetes is a serious condition that, if not managed, can hint to fatal complications including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and amputations. There are 2.3 million people in the UK diagnosed with diabetes and 250,000 with Type 1 diabetes. In Northern Ireland over 62,000 people have diabetes, 6,000 of them with Type 1 diabetes.
Around one in four babies in Northern Ireland are delivered by Caesarean section, which is significantly higher that the World Health Organisation's recommended pace of 15 per cent.
Iain Foster, Director of Diabetes UK Northern Ireland, aforesaid: "Not all women have the option of whether to have a Caesarean section or not, merely those wHO do may wish to take this risk into consideration earlier choosing to give birth this agency.
"We already know that genetics and childhood infections play a vital role in the development of Type 1 diabetes in children, but the findings of this study indicate that the way a baby is delivered could affect how likely it is to develop this condition later in living. Diabetes UK Northern Ireland would welcome more research in this area."
Queen's University Belfast
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Saturday, 30 August 2008
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Mexican pop group RBD announces impending breakup
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican pop grouping RBD testament split up after four-spot years together, but has not said when its last concert will be.
A statement on the group's website says its concerts later this month in Spain will "mark the beginning of this final stage."
The annunciation says that "every great project necessarily to transmute itself in order to excel, and today we are starting that process."
Friday's statement was signed by the group's six members.
Calls to RBD producer Pedro Damian were not returned.
The group was born in 2004 on Mexico's "Rebelde" television program, and continued even after the curriculum ended in 2006. RBD became popular across the Spanish-speaking world for songs like "Salvame," and "Un Poco de Tu Amor."
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Sunday, 10 August 2008
Baaba Maal
Artist: Baaba Maal
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Discography:
Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Baayo
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
A whizz in his native Senegal, spiritual crop up vocalizer Baaba Maal was not tied born to be a performing creative person -- in West African culture, custom dictates that the ancient griot caste must raise the singers and storytellers, and Maal was natural in the city of Podor in 1953 into the fisherman's caste. Despite his parents' insistence that he become a lawyer, he grew up surrounded by medicine, gripping both the traditional sounds of the neighborhood as well as American R&B and person, later discovering jazz and vapors. As a adolescent Maal moved to Dakar, connection the 70-piece orchestra Asly Fouta and teaming with his guitar player friend Mansour Seck to form the group Lasli Fouta; during the early eighties, the duette as well spent several years in Paris, where they recorded the 1984 record album Djam Leelii. Upon reversive to Senegal, Maal formed the group Daande Lenol -- literally, "The Voice of the Race" -- and began honing a highly distinctive sound fusing traditional African music with elements of pop and reggae; in 1988 he issued the LP Wango, the first in a series of highly successful albums which as intimately included 1991's Baayo, 1992's Thresh Toro and 1994's Firin' in Fouta. In 1998, Maal released Nomad Soul; the first transcription on Chris Blackwell's raw Palm Pictures tag, it featured cameos by Brian Eno, Howie B. and others. A succession of records followed on Palm during the subsequent trey eld.
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