Endocrine Abstracts

In the United States of America, among adults, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has increased nearly 5 fold over the last half century. During this unfolding epidemic among adults, type 2 diabetes has now emerged among children. Primarily thought to be a disease of adults, type 2 diabetes was first described among Pima Indian children in the late 1970s. Since then, a number of clinic-base case series have clearly described type 2 diabetes in children of all racial and ethnic ...