Type 2 diabetes used to be practically unheard of in people under 30. That explains the other common name for the disease: adult-onset diabetes. Not long ago, almost all children with diabetes suffered from the type 1 form of the disease, which means their bodies couldn't produce...
"With type 1 diabetes, we still don't know how to prevent it," Imperatore said. "But for type 2 diabetes, there is a great deal of research in adults that shows increasing activity andlosing weightcan help prevent [it]. Now we need more research to see if this is also the case for...
TOPLINE: Nearly one in five adolescents areliving with prediabetes,a condition where blood glucose levels are elevated, but are not high enough for atype 2 diabetes (T2D)diagnosis. According to a new study, higher levels ofnonfasting glucoseandhemoglobin A1c, andworsening obesityare important pre...
Obesity and the form of diabetes linked to it are taking an even worse toll on America's youth than medical experts had realized. As obesity rates in children have climbed, so has the incidence of type 2 diabetes, and a new study adds another worry: The disease progresses more rapidly in...
But in the early '90s, the pattern changed. Out of the blue, it seemed, large children, usually accompanied by overweight parents, began to show up with type 2 diabetes. During the early '90s, Joslin's totals increased five times. Since then, they have doubled again. ...
According to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, overweight children are more likely to be vitamin D-deficient, and kids with the lowest vitamin D levels have the highest risk of developing the initial stages of type 2 diabetes. Researchers ran tests on 411 ...
In girls, those 15- to 19-years-old and all racial and ethnic minorities, the incidence of type 2 diabetes exceeded that of type 1 diabetes. The rates of increase of both diabetes types were generally higher among several racial and ethnic minority populations compared with the non-Hispanic ...
This percentage more than tripled from the 1970s to today. And of children with type 2 diabetes, about 80% are overweight and 40% are clinically obese — many doctors and researchers believe obesity to be a driving force. Not surprisingly,one studyfound that reducing consumption of added suga...
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