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Diabetes Care, Vol 22, Issue 2 345-354, Copyright © 1999 by American Diabetes Association
Emerging epidemic of type 2 diabetes in youth
AL Rosenbloom, JR Joe, RS Young and WE Winter
Children's Medical Services Center, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville 32608, USA. rosenal@peds.ufl.edu
This review considers the epidemiologic evidence of an increasing incidence
of type 2 diabetes in youth, the classification and diagnostic issues
related to diabetes in young populations, pathophysiologic mechanisms
relevant to the increasing incidence, the role of genetics and environment,
and the community challenge for prevention and treatment. Type 2 diabetes
in youth has been recognized to be frequent in populations of native North
Americans and to comprise some 30 percent of new cases of diabetes in the
2nd decade of life, largely accounted for by minority populations and
associated with obesity. Among Japanese schoolchildren, type 2 diabetes is
seven times more common than type 1, and its incidence has increased more
than 30-fold over the past 20 years, concomitant with changing food
patterns and increasing obesity rates. The forms of diabetes seen in
children and youth include typical type 1, occurring in all races; type 2,
seen predominantly in minority youth; atypical diabetes, seen as an
autosomal dominantly transmitted disorder in African-American populations;
and maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY), seen rarely and only in
Caucasians. Of the nonautoimmune forms of diabetes seen in youth, only type
2 diabetes is increasing in incidence. Proper classification requires
consideration of onset (acute/severe versus insidious), ethnicity, family
history, presence of obesity, and if necessary, studies of diabetes related
autoimmunity. Insulin resistance predicts the development of diabetes in
Pima Indians, in offspring of parents with type 2 diabetes, and in other
high-risk populations. African-American children and youth have greater
insulin responses during glucose tolerance testing and during hyperglycemic
clamp study than do whites. There is also evidence of altered beta-cell
function preceding the development of hyperglycemia. Of particular interest
is the evidence that abnormal fetal and infantile nutrition is associated
with the development of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. The thrifty phenotype
hypothesis states that poor nutrition in fetal and infant life is
detrimental to the development and function of the beta-cells and insulin
sensitive tissues, leading to insulin resistance under the stress of
obesity. The thrifty genotype hypothesis proposes that defective insulin
action in utero results in decreased fetal growth as a conservation
mechanism, but at the cost of obesity-induced diabetes in later childhood
or adulthood. The vast majority of type 2 diabetes in adults is polygenic
and associated with obesity. Monogenic forms (MODY, maternally transmitted
mitochondrial mutations) are rare, but are more likely to appear in
childhood. Linkage studies of the common polygenic type 2 diabetes have
emphasized the heterogeneity of the disorder. The prevention and treatment
of type 2 diabetes in children and youth is a daunting challenge because of
the enormous behavioral influence, difficulty in reversing obesity, and
typical nonadherence in this age-group. The emerging epidemic of type 2
diabetes in the pediatric population, especially among minorities whose
proportion in the U.S. population is increasing, presents a serious public
health problem. The full effect of this epidemic will be felt as these
children become adults and develop the long-term complications of diabetes.

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