Higher Rate of Obesity and Hypertension in Adolescents With Type 2 Diabetes Than in Those With Type 1 Diabetes
- Hung-Yuan Li, MD1,
- Jung-Nan Wei, PHD2,
- Fung-Chang Sung, PHD3 and
- Lee-Ming Chuang, MD, PHD14
- 1Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- 2Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan
- 3Institute of Environmental Health, China Medical University College of Public Health, Taichung, Taiwan
- 4Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 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{at}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 6–18 years (2). Diabetes was diagnosed in 381 boys and 454 girls …
