From San Francisco, Calif., at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association
Type II diabetes, once considered a disease of middle-aged and older adults, is increasingly striking obese children. Canadian researchers report that these younger victims are at risk of serious and life-threatening complications in their early 20s.
In a database of patients from a diabetes clinic, the scientists identified 51 Native American children who had been diagnosed with type II diabetes before age 17 as early as the mid-1980s.
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