Number Of US Kids Living With Type 1 diabetes Has Increased By Almost 60% Since 2002, Researchers Say.

reports that “experts” are unsure why “the number of US kids living with type 1 diabetes has increased by almost 60 percent since 2002,” according to a study published online Dec. 17 in Diabetes Care. After examining “a national database, researchers found that the prevalence of type 1 diabetes stood at just under 1.5 cases per 1,000 children and teenagers in 2002.” Eleven years later, however, “that figure had risen to 2.3 per 1,000,” the study found, adding to the “evidence of a global – and puzzling – rise in type 1 diabetes.” http://consumer.healthday.com/diabetes-information-10/type-i-diabetes-news-182/more-u-s-kids-have-type-1-diabetes-but-researchers-don-t-know-why-706315.html