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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Girls aged five to nine are developing type-2 diabetes, figures show.
There have been seven cases in England and Wales of five to nine-year-old girls with the condition, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's National Paediatric and Diabetes Audit.
Doctors said they have treated cases of boys aged seven, though none were recorded in the audit.
There were a further 146 cases in girls aged ten to 14 and 64 cases in boys of the same age group, bringing risk of damage to eyes and kidneys, as well as heart attacks.
The illness most commonly occurs in the over 40s and prior to the year 2000, no case had ever been recorded in the under 18s.
But academics have recorded a sudden increase over the past two decades which is almost certainly down to obesity, our sugary diets and lack of exercise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...crease-blamed-sugary-diets-lack-exercise.html
There have been seven cases in England and Wales of five to nine-year-old girls with the condition, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's National Paediatric and Diabetes Audit.
Doctors said they have treated cases of boys aged seven, though none were recorded in the audit.
There were a further 146 cases in girls aged ten to 14 and 64 cases in boys of the same age group, bringing risk of damage to eyes and kidneys, as well as heart attacks.
The illness most commonly occurs in the over 40s and prior to the year 2000, no case had ever been recorded in the under 18s.
But academics have recorded a sudden increase over the past two decades which is almost certainly down to obesity, our sugary diets and lack of exercise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...crease-blamed-sugary-diets-lack-exercise.html
