Childhood obesity quadruples risk of type 2 diabetes

The growing rate of childhood obesity is fuelling an increase in type 2 diabetes among UK children, say researchers who have found a fourfold greater risk of diabetes in obese children. A retrospective cohort study of 369,362 children aged 2 to 15 years between 1994 and 2013 identified 654 incident cases of type 2 diabetes, and 1318 cases of type 1 diabetes.
The study, published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, found an increasing incidence in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes over the study period. However, only type 2 diabetes was shown to have a linear association with obesity.

Ali Abbasi, Dorota Juszczyk, Cornelia H. M. van Jaarsveld, Martin C. Gulliford; Body Mass Index and Incident Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Young Adults: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Endocr. Soc. 2017; 1 (5): 524-537. doi: 10.1210/js.2017-00044
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