article_snippet: There have been seven cases in England and Wales Wales of five to nine-year-old girls with the condition, according to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health's National Paediatric and Diabetes Audit.
article_snippet: Doctors said Doctors have treated cases of boys aged seven, though none were recorded in Child Health's National Paediatric and Diabetes Audit.
article_snippet: There were a further 146 cases in girls aged ten to 14 and 64 cases in boys of the same age group, bringing risk of damage to eyes and kidneys, as well as heart attacks.
article_snippet: The illness most commonly occurs in the over 40s and prior to the year 2000, no case had ever been recorded in the under 18s.
article_snippet: Professor Tim Barrett, a consultant in paediatric diabetes at Birmingham Children's Hospital said a boy had been referred to a boy aged seven years 11 months, the youngest a boy'd seen.
article_snippet: The illness most commonly occurs in the over 40s and prior to the year 2000, no case had ever been recorded in the under 18s.
highlights_snippet: A further 146 cases in girls aged 10 to 14 and 64 cases of boys same age .
  
highlights_snippet: Before 2000 there was no recorded cases of type-2 diabetes in under 18s .