BABIES AND DIABETES
The largest baby ever born weighed 151 b. It was born in the United States in 1916. This fact is presented by the “ Journal of the American Medical Association ” in reviewing the literature on the connection between the birth of large babies and the existence of diabetes in their mothers. It finds that there are repealed observations in medical literature of the birth of large, mostly fat, babies to mothers suffering from diabetes and not receiving treatments for it. Babies weighing more than 91b are met once in every 30 births, while those more than 131 b are met only once in 200,000 births. The death-rate among “ giant ” babies is reported to be 14.9 per cent., while the average death-rate for all births is 3.2 per cent.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23107, 5 February 1937, Page 11
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