Diabetes rates may surge in US young people, study finds

Diabetes rates may surge in US young people, study finds | CNN The number of people under age 20 with type 2 diabetes in the US may increase nearly 675% by 2060 if trends continue, researchers say, with an increase of up to 65% in young people with type 1 diabetes. Katherine Dillinger CNN

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Type 1 diabetes – in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin – is more common in young people in the US, but type 2 – in which the body doesn’t use insulin the way it should – has “substantially increased” in this age group over the past two decades, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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