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Type 2 Kids Developing Complications
Speaking at a recent cardiology conference, Dr. Kathleen Wyne of the University of Texas reported that children with type 2 are showing complications a mere five or six years after their diagnosis. Compared with adolescents who have type 1, type 2s have more obesity, overweight, hypertension, high triglycerides, low HDL (healthy cholesterol), microalbuminuria, and retinopathy.
And once high triglycerides, hypertension, and low HDLs enter the picture, says Dr. Wyne, the road to complications has already begun. These children could end up developing heart failure in their twenties and thirties. Even worse, many children with type 2 are probably going undiagnosed. To combat this, Dr. Wyne suggests early and frequent screening of children with obesity and a family history of diabetes. As a matter of fact, she advises families to take a glucose meter to holiday celebrations and check everyone’s blood two hours into the meal. Anyone with a level of more than 140 mg/dL needs to see the doctor pronto.
Speaking to Clinical Endocrinology News, Dr. Wyne said, “If I’ve got grandparents in their forties and fifties with diabetes and heart disease, and they have a fat little [grand]kid, I know that kid is headed in that direction.” For such a child, lifestyle and diet changes are imperative, and even medication may be called for.
Source: Clinical Endocrinology News, February 2007
Categories: Diabetes, Diabetes, Kids & Teens, Type 2 Issues
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