(Source: UPI News, 17 February 2011)
Early signs of cardiovascular disease are likely to manifest before the onset of puberty in many children with type 1 diabetes, U.S. researchers say. Study leader Dr. Ramin Alemzadeh of the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, senior clinician scientist at Children's Hospital's Max McGee Juvenile Diabetes Research Center, and colleagues studied 21 preadolescent children -- average age 8.5 -- with type 1 diabetes and compared them to15 healthy siblings.
Investigators looked at flow-mediated dilatation -- a gauge of the health of a major blood vessel of the upper arm artery by measuring any stiffening of the blood vessels an early sign of heart disease. Read more
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