By Anita Manning, USA TODAY
White children account for most of the new cases of diabetes in children, says a new study, but the disease is found in all ethnic groups, and rates of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are on the rise.
In Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dana Dabelea of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center reports on the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, the first study designed to estimate the national incidence of diabetes by race, ethnicity and diabetes type in people under the age of 20.
The study found that estimated rates of type 1 diabetes, which usually strikes in youth, are up 40%-60% for white children and 20%-40% for black and Hispanic children over previous estimates, though she cautions that earlier studies used different methodologies, so direct comparisons can't be made.
What triggers type 1, a form of the disease in which the body's immune system destroys its insulin-producing cells, is not known, so the reasons for an increase are not clear, Dabelea says. Theories include a greater genetic susceptibility to autoimmune disease, exposure to something in the environment that has changed over time, or even too much cleanliness, resulting in fewer early-life infections that could train the immune system. ...more
Wednesday, July 11
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In my opinion, the reason why diabetes keeps rising among the youth is because of their early introduction to foods that are unhealthy in the first place. Processed foods, which packs up lots of calories and carbohydrates but little nutrition, as well as beverages like powdered juices and sodas contribute makes the youth very prone to diabetes.
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