Waqas Afzal.
Type 2 diabetes and weight dynamics in young: current view.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;69(9):1234-6.

Inception of Health Problem Awareness Type 2 Diabetes was considered to be the disease of adults before 1985. With the explosion in number of cases in children with Type 2 diabetes in particular and diabetes as a whole, this is no longer the case. Early research presented a handful of cases and was inevitably met with scepticism. But as time passed the number of cases with Type 2 Diabetes in young adults grew exponentially and the global research community started to take notice. It was found that children from poor backgrounds and indigenous population tend to be effected more than their peers. In 1998 the head of Diabetes division Frank Vinicor Centre for Disease Control (CDC) convened a group of senior epidemiologists and endocrinologists to develop a gold standard for diagnosis of Diabetes type 2 in children. They reported that majority of effected children who were obese, belonged to Mexican American, African American or indigenous heritage having one or both parents with type 2 diabetes and were from disadvantaged environments. However, because of the crude immune markers available at the time to differentiate between types of diabetes this task seemed un-surmountable.

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