Endocrine Abstracts

An estimated 100 million people worldwide currently suffer from type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The incidence of T2DM is steadily escalating throughout the world in people from a wide range of ethnic groups and all social and economic levels. Parallel with the global epidemic of T2DM in adults, an 'emerging epidemic' of T2DM has been observed in youth over the last decade. Research and clinical experience in adults have established that insulin resistance is a major risk fact...