Number of US youths with diabetes likely to increase in upcoming decades

Researchers hypothesize that the number of youths in the U.S. with diabetes is likely to substantially increase in future decades, highlighting the need for diabetes prevention, according to estimates published in Diabetes Care.

“In particular, the risk of type 2 diabetes seems worrying because compared with youths and young adults with type 1 diabetes, those with type 2 diabetes have a worse cardiovascular risk profile and increased risk of complications and mortality,” Thaddäus Tönnies, MD, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Biometrics and Epidemiology at the German Diabetes Center in Düsseldorf, Germany, and colleagues wrote.
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