Breast-Feeding Protects Against Development of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth

Breast-feeding appears to be protective against development of type 2 diabetes in youth of 3 ethnic groups, mediated in part by current weight status in childhood, according to the results of a study reported in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

“Among adults, breast-feeding in infancy has been associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, but little is known regarding the potential beneficial effect of breast-feeding on the development of type 2 diabetes in adolescence,” write Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis, PhD, from the University of South Carolina in Columbia and colleagues from The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Case-Control Study. “We hypothesized that youth with type 2 diabetes would be less likely to have been breast-fed compared with nondiabetic control youth and that this finding would be consistent across three race/ethnic groups of non-Hispanic whites, African Americans, and Hispanics and independent of maternal diabetes status. Further, we explored whether current BMI [body mass index] would account for any of the observed protective association.”"*

*From: http://www.medscape.com
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