What
is the Risk of Complications for Children with
Type 2?
Looks like the same risk but complications appear
30-40 years earlier.
Pima
Indians who developed type 2 diabetes before they
were 20 years old later developed kidney disease
at the same rate as those who got type 2 as adults.
The
rate of retinopathy, however, was not as great
amount those with youth-onset type 2.
Researchers
from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive
and Kidney Diseases; National Institutes of Health;
studied the rate of kidney and eye disease in
2,508 Pima Indians, who were followed for 25 years.
Of these subjects 178 were diagnosed with type
2 before age 20, 1,359 were diagnosed between
ages 20 and 39; and 971 were diagnosed between
ages 40 and 59. Diabetes Care, Jan 2003
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FACT:
People with type 2 diabetes have the same risk
of heart attack as people without diabetes who
have already had a heart attack.
