How prevalent are diabetes-related complications in patients with youth-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus?
Jennifer Miller and Janet Silverstein*
Correspondence *Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, 1701 SW 16th Avenue, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Email silvejh@peds.ufl.edu
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Physicians have long known that insulin resistance (and possibly hyperglycemia) can be present for some time before an individual is diagnosed with T2DM, leading to the presence of diabetes complications at the time of adult diagnosis. T2DM is also characterized by high levels of inflammatory adipokines and low levels of adiponectin, which are associated with microvascular and macrovascular disease.1 As the prevalence of youth-onset T2DM has increased, it is likely that diabetes complications will frequently be detected when affected individuals are still fairly young.
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