Age And Race Affected By Diabetes
Diabetes in children in the US
The journal Diabetes Care has just published a discussion of results from the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, titled The Many Faces of Diabetes in AmericanYouth: Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Five Race and Ethnic Populations. It's a series of articles, one for each race/ethnic group.
The authors describe the study's objective as "to describe childhood diabetes [in children and teenagers less than age 20] as it occurs among the five major race and ethnic groups in the U.S." They evaluated...
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