DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1265 © 2006 by the American Diabetes Association
Higher Rate of Obesity and Hypertension in Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes Than in Those With Type 1 Diabetes
1 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Address correspondence to Dr. Lee-Ming Chuang, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: leeming@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw
We read with interest the article by Eppens et al. (1) concerning the prevalence of diabetes complications in adolescents with type 2 compared with type 1 diabetes.
Because the study was clinic based and included a relatively small number of subjects with type 2 diabetes (n = 68), we present our findings from a nationwide screening program, which was conducted between 1992 and 1997 for all schoolchildren aged 618 years (2). Diabetes was diagnosed in 381 boys
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