Weight increase in first year of life linked to type 1 diabetes

Weight increase during the first year of an infant’s life is positively associated with the risk of developing type 1 diabetes, an analysis of two large Scandinavian birth cohorts has found.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, included 59 221 children from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study and 40 611 from the Danish National Birth Cohort who were born between February 1998 and July …