Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
One of the most important things a pediatrician or family practitioner can do for his young patients is to educate them and their families about Type 2 diabetes, says endocrinologist Bresta Miranda.
It’s a disease that used to affect people who had reached their 60s, but it’s now occurring in children as young as 10.
In the United States, more than 5,000 youths are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes each year, according to data collected from 2008 to 2009 as part of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. That’s up from 2002 to 2005 when there were about 3,600 new cases a year, as reported in the New York Times.
This is a major health concern because uncontrolled Type 2, like all diabetes, can have serious long-term consequences, including amputations, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness and heart disease.
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health-fitness/article4060787.html
It’s a disease that used to affect people who had reached their 60s, but it’s now occurring in children as young as 10.
In the United States, more than 5,000 youths are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes each year, according to data collected from 2008 to 2009 as part of the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. That’s up from 2002 to 2005 when there were about 3,600 new cases a year, as reported in the New York Times.
This is a major health concern because uncontrolled Type 2, like all diabetes, can have serious long-term consequences, including amputations, nerve damage, kidney failure, blindness and heart disease.
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/health-fitness/article4060787.html