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Byline: Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Type 2 diabetes, the most common variety, used to be called adult-onset diabetes because it rarely occurred before middle age, but in recent years, doctors have diagnosed Type 2 diabetes in many young adolescents and children, some no older than 6.
"Ten years ago, we never saw Type 2 diabetes in kids, ... but in the past several years, we've uncovered a significant increase in Type 2 diabetes in children," John H. Graham IV, chief executive officer of the American Diabetes Association, said yesterday in a telephone interview.
Dr. Lori Laffel, head of the pediatric unit at the Joslin Diabetes Center...
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