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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
With childhood obesity rates on the rise, pediatricians are doing something they couldn?t have imagined a need for a decade ago: they?re debuting guidelines for managing weight-related diabetes among youngsters.
Children have long been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, in which the body fails to make enough insulin-producing cells to process glucose in the blood, but doctors are now seeing an increasing number of children with type 2 diabetes, in which fat cells that enlarge with weight gain thwart the body?s ability to break down sugars. Up to a third of cases being diagnosed in kids these days are Type 2, with minorities the most impacted. ?We?re seeing it much more than we did before,? says Dr. Janet Silverstein, co-author of the new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines on diabetes and professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida. ?Many pediatricians were never trained in managing Type 2 because it just wasn?t a disease we used to see. It was a disease of adulthood. But as we?re seeing more obesity in kids, we?re seeing adult diseases in childhood.?
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/...-first-ever-diabetes-guidelines-for-children/
"type 2 diabetes, in which fat cells that enlarge with weight gain thwart the body?s ability to break down sugars" - eh? 🙄
Children have long been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, in which the body fails to make enough insulin-producing cells to process glucose in the blood, but doctors are now seeing an increasing number of children with type 2 diabetes, in which fat cells that enlarge with weight gain thwart the body?s ability to break down sugars. Up to a third of cases being diagnosed in kids these days are Type 2, with minorities the most impacted. ?We?re seeing it much more than we did before,? says Dr. Janet Silverstein, co-author of the new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines on diabetes and professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida. ?Many pediatricians were never trained in managing Type 2 because it just wasn?t a disease we used to see. It was a disease of adulthood. But as we?re seeing more obesity in kids, we?re seeing adult diseases in childhood.?
http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/...-first-ever-diabetes-guidelines-for-children/
"type 2 diabetes, in which fat cells that enlarge with weight gain thwart the body?s ability to break down sugars" - eh? 🙄