Rates Of T2D Among Children In The UK Rising And Tracking Along With Increased Obesity, Study Finds.

reports, “Rates of type 2 diabetes [T2D] among children in the UK have been rising, and tracking along with increased obesity and severe obesity,” researchers found after examining “data from 369,362 patients between ages 2 and 15, tracking new cases of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes and comparing them to children’s body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height, over time.” The findings were published online in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-children-obesity-diabetes-idUSKBN17Z2E3