Type 2 diabetes can cause complications in children sooner than in adults. Your child will have a diabetes care team. The team may include physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. It may also include nurses, dietitians, exercise specialists, pharmacists, and a dentist. You, your...
Editorial. Discusses the growing problem of chronic diseases, especially type 2 diabetes, in children. Reasons why children have developed type 2 diabetes mellitus, rather than the more prevalent type 1; How the mean age of diagnosis of type 2 diabetes among children in the United States is ...
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recently published recommendations on screening for type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. What Is Diabetes? Diabetes refers to a range of disorders characterized by high blood glucose (sugar). In type 2 diabetes, cells in the body do ...
The management of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is complex and poses a range of unique challenges. Treatment may involve weight reduction, lifestyle modification, exercise programs, and medications to treat hyperglycemia. However, few of the drugs used in the treatment of type 2 diab...
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...
For adults, getting too much or not enough sleep both have been linked with adiposity and type 2 diabetes. In children, more sleep has been tied to lower levels of obesity, but research about type 2 diabetes risk factors has been scarce, according to The Journal of Pediatrics. ...
Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. Sometimes referred to as a "lifestyle disease", the incidence of this form of diabetes continues to grow - and not just in adults, but more and more commonly in children and teens too. What causes even more concern is that many peopl...
Pediatric patients aged 10 to 19 years old diagnosed with COVID-19 have a higher risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes within six months compared to those diagnosed with other respiratory infections, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve Universit
Data from theSEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study(SEARCH) show a rising incidence of bothtype 1 diabetesandtype 2 diabetesamong US children and teenagers (< 20 years old) in 2002-2018. In girls, those 15- to 19-years-old and all racial and ethnic minorities, the incidence of type 2 diab...
Type 2 diabetes of children and adolescentsLamisse, F