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Impaired glucose regulation and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.
Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews - 1 Sept 2008
Kempf Kerstin, Rathmann Wolfgang, Herder Christian
Abstract excerpt
Diabetes mellitus in paediatric patients used to be almost exclusively type 1, but in recent years, case series as well as hospital-based and population-based studies indicated that the number of children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) has been increasing. This development is alarming since T2DM in youth is usually not an isolated condition, but accompanied by other cardiovascular risk factors such...
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