Type 1 And Type 2 Diabetes Rates Continue To Rise Among US Youngsters, Research Suggests.

reports, “Diabetes increased in teens and children over the past decade,” research suggests. The Examiner quotes Barbara Linder, senior adviser for childhood diabetes research at the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, who said, “We need to understand why the increase in rates of diabetes development varies so greatly and is so concentrated in specific racial and ethnic groups.” http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/diabetes-rising-sharply-in-kids/article/2620155