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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Doctors carrying out a major study into Type 2 diabetes, the fastest growing childhood disease, say they are "aghast" at the number of children who have developed the condition.
The EarlyBird Project in Plymouth, which concluded this week, monitored 300 children for the disease over 12 years.
It recruited the healthy five-year-olds in 2000 and tested them twice a year by getting them to wear activity monitors, scanning their bones and taking blood samples.
Type 2 diabetes used to be considered a disease of middle and old age, but three of the youngsters who volunteered for the project have already developed the condition and researchers believe a further 55 are showing clinical signs of developing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18434316
The EarlyBird Project in Plymouth, which concluded this week, monitored 300 children for the disease over 12 years.
It recruited the healthy five-year-olds in 2000 and tested them twice a year by getting them to wear activity monitors, scanning their bones and taking blood samples.
Type 2 diabetes used to be considered a disease of middle and old age, but three of the youngsters who volunteered for the project have already developed the condition and researchers believe a further 55 are showing clinical signs of developing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18434316