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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Patients with young-onset Type 2 diabetes have worse metabolic control than those with late-onset disease, but they are less likely to receive organ-protective drugs, show data from the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) cohort.
These findings “suggest an impending epidemic of young-onset diabetic complications”, write Juliana Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and study co-authors in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
The researchers found that 18% of 41,029 patients with Type 2 diabetes, enrolled from 245 institutions in nine countries across Asia over a 5-year period, were diagnosed with the disease before the age of 40 years. The mean age at diagnosis for these patients was 32.9 years compared with 53.9 years for patients with late-onset diabetes (diagnosed at 40 years or older).
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20...nt-common-in-young-onset-Type-2-diabetes.aspx
These findings “suggest an impending epidemic of young-onset diabetic complications”, write Juliana Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and study co-authors in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology.
The researchers found that 18% of 41,029 patients with Type 2 diabetes, enrolled from 245 institutions in nine countries across Asia over a 5-year period, were diagnosed with the disease before the age of 40 years. The mean age at diagnosis for these patients was 32.9 years compared with 53.9 years for patients with late-onset diabetes (diagnosed at 40 years or older).
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20...nt-common-in-young-onset-Type-2-diabetes.aspx