Issue 155 Item 13 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.