Overweight Baby Girls at Increased Risk for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetesin Adulthood

Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 07:04 in Health & Medicine

Heavier female babies are more likely to develop diabetes and related metabolic risks when they grow up compared with their male counterparts, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM).

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