NextGen Study Prevents Type 2 Diabetes

Researchers led by Dr. Brandy Wicklow at the University of Manitoba are expanding the NextGen Birth Cohort study in northern Manitoba after receiving a recent $1.5-million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Of 548 parent-child pairs, the team identified and reversed 60 pre-diabetes cases through nutrition and lifestyle counselling and will pilot lactation and land-based postnatal interventions in several First Nations communities.