Title: Type 2 Diabetes in Children: Symptoms and Treatments
Headings: Type 2 Diabetes in Children: Symptoms and Treatments
Type 2 Diabetes in Children: Symptoms and Treatments
What Is Type 2 Diabetes?
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What Are the Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in Children?
What Are the Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes in Children?
How Is Type 2 Diabetes in Children Diagnosed?
How Is Type 2 Diabetes in Children Treated?
What Are the Complications of Type 2 Diabetes in Children?
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Content: That’s why you start having issues with your eyes and kidneys and other parts of the body. And even though they have a lot of sugar, your body feels like you’re starving because it’s not going into the cells anywhere,” where it can be used. This creates symptoms of increased hunger and thirst and weight gain that are often associated with Type 2 diabetes. Although Type 2 diabetes has traditionally been rare in children, over the past 30 years or so, rates of this chronic disease have risen significantly among people under 19 years of age. A 2017 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that between 2002 and 2012, rates of newly diagnosed cases of Type 2 diabetes in children aged 10 to 19 increased 4.8 percent each year. The increase was even steeper in certain ethnic groups – Native Americans had an 8.9 percent annual increase, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders ticked upwards at 8.5 percent, and non-Hispanic blacks saw a 6.3 percent rise. Dr. Joseph Wanski, an endocrinologist with L.A. Care Health Plan, says the rising number of cases of Type 2 diabetes in children is related to America’s worsening weight problem. “ There is currently an obesity epidemic in the United States, as well as a significant increase in the diagnosis of diabetes or elevated blood sugars during pregnancy in recent decades.” This increase spells trouble for not only the individuals who develop Type 2 diabetes, but the whole of the population as a generation of children deals with the consequences of chronic disease, Shapiro says. “ If we continue this trend, it’s something that we’re not going to have enough people or money to take care of it.