Title: Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the rise among children, teens | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Headings: Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the rise among children, teens
Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the rise among children, teens
Fastest rise seen among racial/ethnic minority groups.
Key diabetes findings from the report
Cause of rising diabetes incidence unclear

Content: The differences among racial and ethnic groups and between genders raise many questions. We need to understand why the increase in rates of diabetes development varies so greatly and is so concentrated in specific racial and ethnic groups.” Type 1 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes in young people, is a condition in which the body fails to make insulin. Causes of type 1 diabetes are still unknown. However, disease development is suspected to follow exposure of genetically predisposed people to an “environmental trigger,” stimulating an immune attack against the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. In type 2 diabetes, the body does not make or use insulin well. In the past, type 2 diabetes was extremely rare in youth, but it has become more common in recent years. Several NIH-funded studies are directly examining how to delay, prevent, and treat diabetes: Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet
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screens thousands of relatives of people with type 1 diabetes annually and conducts prevention studies with those at highest risk for the disease. The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study seeks
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to uncover factors that may increase development of type 1 diabetes.