Once middle age disease, diabetes hits more children
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Diabetes is striking growing numbers of children around the world as parents and doctors fail to diagnose a disease which until recently was associated mostly with middle-aged and elderly people, experts said on Tuesday.
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Non-Hispanic white children have the  highest rates of diabetes in the United States, U.S.  researchers said on Tuesday, and the disease appears to be more  common than expected.
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Charity Diabetes UK said there were currently 1.8 million people suffering from the condition - up by 400,000 in just eight years.
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Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to children for bipolar disorders, aggression, and schizophrenia have been linked to a higher risk for type 2 diabetes in a new study presented at a American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry meeting.
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NEW YORK  - Results of a new study provide more evidence that being depressed increases the likelihood of developing diabetes.
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Children with a clustering of  cardiovascular risk factors that define the so-called metabolic  syndrome are very likely to have the syndrome in mid-adulthood,  or even overt heart disease or diabetes, according to a new  study.
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NEW YORK  - By 2050, 12 percent of US   citizens will have diabetes, a total of 48.3 million people,   federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control   and Prevention in Atlanta estimate.
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A study of more than 1 million South Koreans suggests diabetes can raise the risk of developing and dying from several types of cancer, including digestive-tract tumors.
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Los Angeles  pediatrician Francine Kaufman is on the front lines of the  childhood obesity epidemic, which has flooded her office with  diabetes patients and put kids at risk of adult health  problems.
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The global diabetes epidemic is projected to affect 7 percent of the world's adult population by 2025 as developing countries embrace bad health habits associated with affluence, medical experts said on Monday.
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People who live along the US-Mexico border suffer diabetes at a rate somewhat higher than the national averages in either country, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Most children who undergo cancer treatment will develop one or more chronic health problems later in life due to the illness and complications from its treatment, a study released Tuesday suggested.
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Around 80 per cent of diabetic children in England may face complications in later life because their blood sugar levels are too high.
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NEW YORK  - People who develop diabetes late in life often suffer from a range of diabetes-related complications, and their life expectancy is shorter than that of nondiabetic individuals of the same age, a new study shows.
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EL PASO - People who live along the US-Mexican border suffer diabetes at a rate somewhat higher than the national averages in either country, according to a study released Wednesday.
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A study in Australia has shown that changes occur in blood vessels in the eyes of heavier and obese children from as young as six, warning signs that might be linked to cardiovascular disease in later life.
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Four out of five children with diabetes are not reaching recommended blood glucose levels, research has revealed. An audit of almost 12,000 youngsters found that 80% were not hitting targets for blood glucose