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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
It’s become a disturbing fact and a big concern for healthcare professionals—more and more children are developing type 2 diabetes. Previously only seen in adults, today about 39,000 adolescents already have the disease and another 2.7 million are at risk for developing the condition.
These estimates were presented in a study published in the May 2006 edition of Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
Type 2 diabetes, traditionally referred to as adult-onset diabetes, is a debilitating and deadly disease with complications that include blindness, heart disease and kidney failure. The treatment normally involves weight loss and a low sugar diet.
Doctors state that 20 years ago, they didn’t encounter children with type 2 diabetes, but with the current lifestyles of most Americans, they expect these distressing numbers to rise.
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Family Health 
