Related story: Fighting Type 2 diabetes for better future.The study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes for Health, reported the rate of the insulin-dependent disease is up 23 percent among children and adolescents. Type 1 diabetes has been formerly called juvenile diabetes as it is often diagnosed in childhood and adolescence, though it can develop at any time and adults also have the disease.
"The study started because of concerns that physicians were starting to see adolescents, particularly those of minority ethnicities, emerging with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, something we previously thought would occur only in adults," study co-chairwoman Dr. Elizabeth Mayer-Davis of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill told heartwire, an independent medical news source.
And while there is a strong link between Type 2 diabetes and obesity, what causes Type 1 has not been pinpointed. The Wall Street Journal reported that about 80 percent of Type 1 diabetics don't have a close relative with the disease.
Theories for what triggers the disease include faster growth and weight gain among children, as well as "underchallenged" immune systems. Type 1 is not linked to lifestyle factors.
Complications of Type 1 diabetes include kidney disease, heart disease, diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage), vision loss and foot problems.
The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study - the largest of its kind conducted in the U.S. - included five clinical centers across the country and analyzed the data of 20,000 children younger than the age of 20 over an eight-year period.
In 2011, the CDC estimated that 25.8 million people were living with diabetes - 7 million of them undiagnosed. Previously, the agency has estimated diabetes equating to $116 billion in direct medical costs.
Original Print Headline: Study: Type 1 diabetes is also on rise among youth
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