Obese siblings of diabetic children at risk

More nutritional child abuse.

"Compared with other overweight children, overweight siblings of children with type 2 diabetes mellitus have a significantly higher prevalence of abnormal glucose tolerance, a risk factor for diabetes, according to researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia."

Kudos, fatsos.

"'These siblings,' lead investigator Dr. Sheela N. Magge told Reuters Health, 'have a unique combination of genetic and environmental risk factors. We found that the obese sibling group had four-times higher odds of having abnormal glucose tolerance -- pre-diabetes and diabetes -- compared to the control group.'"

In addition to the genetic risk factor bulls**t, proving this doc is unqualified, there is clear complicity in the child abuse.

"Magge and colleagues studied 62 obese children, aged 8 to 17 years, who had at least 1 sibling aged 12 years or older. Twenty children had a sibling with diabetes; 42 acted as controls, according to the study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics...

'These obese siblings represent a particularly high risk group to target for type 2 diabetes mellitus screening and prevention studies,' Magge concluded."

But Magge did not conclude to do the right thing.

That is, report the parents of the 62 children for committing nutritional child abuse. The law mandates that Drs. (assuming a physician) report child abuse to the authorities.

Shameful.

And shameful for the journal to publish this abuse.

Just as many journals now require authors to declare if they have any financial involvement in the research they perform, so too should the journals require authors to comply with the law in their research.

This may be too much to ask from the pediatric establishment and the medical establishment in general.