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Caesarean section babies likelier to develop diabetes, study reports
27 Aug 2008
Babies delivered by Caesarean section - which sees the child come through incisions made in the uterus and abdomen - are more likely to develop type 1 diabetes than those born normally, according to a new study.
Led by staff from Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the researchers examined 20 published studies from 16 countries including roughly 10,000 kids with type 1 diabetes and over a million without the condition, web resource Eurekalert notes.
A 20 per cent increase in the risk of children born by Caesarean section developing the disease was identified and the increase could not be explains by factors such as the age of the mother, birth weight of baby or whether the child was breast-fed or not.
Dr Chris Cardwell, from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, comments that it is important to note that the reason for this occurrence is still not known.
"It is possible that children born by Caesarean section differ from other children with respect to some unknown characteristic which consequently increases their risk of diabetes, but it is also possible that Caesarean section itself is responsible," he adds.
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