Should She or Shouldn’t She?
The relationship between infant feeding practices and type 1 diabetes in the genetically at risk
- Lisa M. Rogers, PHD, RD1,
- Lois Jovanovic, MD2 and
- Dorothy J. Becker, MD3
- 1Division of Neonatology and Developmental Biology, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California
- 2Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, Santa Barbara, California
- 3Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Address correspondence to Dr. Lisa M. Rogers, 10833 Le Conte Ave., Room B2-375 MDCC, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1752. E-mail: lrogers{at}mednet.ucla.edu
Now more than ever, women with type 1 diabetes are able to bear healthy children. Nevertheless, the concern that early infant nutrition plays a role in subsequent diabetes development in the offspring remains an important issue. Though we still do not know the exact causes of type 1 diabetes, recent research indicates that both genetic and environmental issues are contributing factors.
A possible link between early infant nutrition and the risk of developing type …
