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Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the disease’s prevalence among children ages 12 to 19 since a decade ago, when it was ...
May 21, 2012 at 04:20 | Source: New York Times Blogs
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a large new trial looking at ways to slow the progression of type 2 diabetes in children and teens, the addition of a second drug to the mainstay treatment metformin was only marginally more effective at ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: YAHOO!
Medscape: Children were classified as having prediabetes or diabetes using recommendations from the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Blood glucose was measured only in children who had completed a self-reported 8-hour overnight fast ...
May 22, 2012 at 16:07 | Source: Medscape News
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center endocrinologist Dr. Nancy Crimmins didn’t need a Centers for Disease Control study released this week to tell her Type 2 diabetes is a growing threat to children. Earlier this week, she saw a ...
May 26, 2012 at 09:29 | Source: Cincinnati.com
PRINCETON, N.J., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Novo Nordisk, a world leader in diabetes care, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Levemir® (insulin detemir [rDNA origin] injection) for use in children ages two to ...
May 22, 2012 at 13:51 | Source: Phramalive.com
The results of a large clinical trial, funded by the National Institute of Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has concluded that the management of type 2 diabetes in teen aged children is very difficult to maintain. According to ...
May 21, 2012 at 14:21 | Source: Examiner
Research shows traditional treatments used on adults only work in half of children with type 2 diabetes. “Type 2 diabetes is the perfect storm of nature and nurture,” Rome said. “So the genetic predisposition is there, and when you get the ...
May 21, 2012 at 23:18 | Source: Cleveland News - Fox 8
ATLANTA, May 21 (UPI) -- Diabetes and pre-diabetes in U.S. children ages 12-19 more than doubled from 9 percent in 2000 to 23 percent in 2008, health officials say. Lead author Ashleigh May, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control ...
May 21, 2012 at 22:20 | Source: United Press International
This report really sounds the alarm," says David S. Ludwig, a childhood obesity expert at Children's Hospital in Boston. Diabetes can cause all sorts of other problems, including blindness, nerve damage, heart attacks and strokes. "It's one ...
May 20, 2012 at 23:55 | Source: NPR News
we have to be incredibly aggressive and look at children and adolescents and say you have to make time for physical activity," says pediatric endocrinologist Larry Deeb, former president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association.
May 19, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: USA Today