When Your
Child Has Diabetes
About 50
percent of new cases of type 1 diabetes occur in childhood
and adolescence. In fact, over the past twenty years, type
1 diabetes has been occurring earlier in childhood. There
has also been an increase in the incidence of type 2
diabetes in childhood. As with diabetes in adults, it is
important to distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes
because the treatments of the two types are
different.
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