Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of diabetes is increasing worldwide and type 2 diabetes in younger people is a growing phenomenon. From 1998 we have studied 21 subjects with early onset type 2 diabetes.Methods:11 subjects(7 males) with type 2 diabetes, age 23.7 plus/minus 1.01 years and 10 subjects(8 males) age 35.4 plus/minus 11.7 years were studied with an insulin modified (0.05 unit per kg ) intravenous glucose tolerance test. BMI was 34.3 plus/minus 1.4 kg per m2</sup...