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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Strategies for management of diabetes in the young in China
Author:
Xiaoping Luo
Published in:
International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
The incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is rising rapidly in children, with an overall annual global increase of 3%. Approximately 79,100 children under age 15 develop T1DM annually. Although the reported incidence of T1DM in China was as low as 0.6 per 100,000 per annum in 1995, the number of children with T1DM cannot be underestimated within the large population. The number of type 2 diabetics in the young has been increasing significantly in the last decades. …