An alarm bell from America: a significant increase in diabetes among young people

A study published on Tuesday showed that the number of young adults with the most common type of diabetes nearly doubled in the United States from 2001 to 2017.

The results showed that the proportion of young people aged 10 to 19 years with type 2 diabetes increased by 95% over a 16-year period.

The estimated proportion of young people under the age of 20 with type 1 diabetes increased by 45%.

"High rates of diabetes, especially preventable type 2, can cause a cascade of poor health outcomes," said Dr. Giusepina Imperator, who oversees disease follow-up and other areas at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This month, Reuters published a special report on the deteriorating outcomes of diabetes patients in the United States.

The new findings were part of a study that looked at rates of diabetes among young adults, which was funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.

One in 10 Americans, or 34 million people, has diabetes in the United States.

About 1.6 million people suffer from type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease of unknown cause that requires insulin injections when the pancreas stops producing this hormone.

Millions of people suffer from type 2 diabetes, a chronic condition in which the body does not produce enough insulin or does not use it well.

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Lawrence, principal investigator for this paper and director of the Diabetes Epidemiology Program at the National Institutes of Health, says more research is needed to better understand the reasons for these increases.

He added, "The increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes could be caused by the high rates of obesity in children, in addition to the intrauterine exposure of the fetus to obesity and diabetes in mothers, or increased tests for diabetes."

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