1. Diabetes trends in youth.
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Bloomgarden, Zachary and Rapaport, Robert
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DIABETIC retinopathy , *DIABETES , *TYPE 2 diabetes , *TYPE 1 diabetes , *DIABETES in children , *YOUNG adults - Abstract
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevalence in the 10- to 19-year-old population has doubled over the past two decades in the United States.[1] It is present in nearly 2 persons per 1000 among Black and American Indian youth, in about 1 per 1000 among Hispanic youth, but in 0.2 per 1000 among non-Hispanic white youth, the incidence of T2D has similarly doubled among adolescents in the United States over this period, from 9 to 18 cases per 100 000 per year, with incidence again particularly high in Black and American Indian youth.[2] The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the United States also increased, from 20 to 22 per 100 000 persons age <20 during the same period,[2] and its prevalence increased from 1.5 to 2.2 per 1000,[1] with a different racial and ethnic composition, more common in non-Hispanic white, then Black, then Hispanic, then Asian and then American Indian. Trends in incidence of youth-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the USA, 2002-18: results from the population-based SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study. Trends in prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in the US, 2001-2017. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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