When it comes to diabetes, white kids are hit hardest; claiming this, a new population-based study shows that type 1 diabetes is more prevalent in white kids than those of other races.
According to this study:-
White kids were more susceptible to type 1 diabetes.
Among Hispanic and Asian kids, its prevalence was lower but just slightly.
Kids between 10 to 14 were comparatively more susceptible to type 1 diabetes.
From gender point of view, girls were found more prone to diabetes than boys.
Constantly, prevalence of type 2 diabetes among kids was found increasing.
Prevalence of type 2 diabetes was more in American Indian between the group
After going through these facts, severity of the situation can easily be assessed. Well, it is good to know that there has not been seen much rise in diabetes among kids but to take the fact, which states that around 15,000 kids are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year, for granted won’t be right.
Actually, diabetes is quite a serious problem, which is fast raising its hood round the world, taking kids under its fold. Well, a big percentage of experts, believes that sharp rise in obesity among kids is one the of the root causes behind increase in type 1 diabetes among children. More worrying is the fact that type 2 diabetes, which is normally regarded as the disease of adults has fast started foraying into kids too all over the world.
On this base, it won’t be wrong to say that strong measures are required to be taken; otherwise days are not far away when diabetes would emerge as a common health problem among kids, turning their lives into a hell.
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