Proportion of Diabetes Type in Early-Onset Diabetes in Japan
- Yohei Ogawa, MD12,
- Yasuko Uchigata, MD1,
- Toshika Otani, MD1 and
- Yasuhiko Iwamoto, MD1
- 1Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2Division of Pediatrics, Department of Homeostatic Regulation and Development, Niigata University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Science, Niigata, Japan
- Address correspondence to Yohei Ogawa, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Diabetes Center, 8-1 Kawada-cho Tokyo 162-8666. E-mail yohei_oga{at}yahoo.co.jp
Since 1990, we have reported hospital-based studies concerning Japanese patients with early-onset diabetes in our Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan (1). Our goal is to confirm the proportion of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes in early-onset diabetes in Japan in our center with that of the Asian group in The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth, a recent population-based study concerning the prevalence of diabetes in youth (2). …
