Posted on 12/31/2022 9:46:33 AM PST by nickcarraway
The number of young people in the U.S. with type 2 diabetes could surge by about 700% over the next four decades, with a greater burden falling on minority groups, a new model predicts.
If the recent acceleration of new diagnoses persists, then 220,000 people younger than 20 would have type 2 diabetes in 2060, compared with 28,000 in 2017, the latest year for which data is available, according to projections published this month in Diabetes Care. Even if the rate of new diagnoses stays constant, there would still be a 70% increase in type 2 cases by 2060.
Type 1 cases are also set to climb during that period, increasing 65% if the recent acceleration of diagnoses persists and 3% if the rate stays constant, the study predicts.
The figures point to the enormous public health burden facing the U.S. — not only from diabetes itself, but also from the rippling health problems and costs stemming from the condition. People with diabetes are at risk of complications such as kidney failure, heart disease and stroke.
Related: Diabetes treatments are improving. Racial disparities are wider than ever “This new research should serve as a wake-up call for all of us,” Debra Houry, acting principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday in a statement. The CDC funds the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study, on whose data the projections are based.
The CDC said possible reasons for the trend in type 2 cases are the growing prevalence of childhood obesity and maternal diabetes, both of which raise the risk of diabetes in young people.
Racial and ethnic minority groups are set to experience a greater burden of disease, with the highest prevalence likely to be among non-Hispanic Black youth, according to the projections.
That finding comes as recent studies show persistent racial disparities in the treatment of diabetes care – such as gaps in the ability to achieve good blood sugar control while taking insulin, and also in the use of insulin pumps.
The implications are grave since research has shown that young people with diabetes may suffer higher treatment failure and poorer outcomes than people who are diagnosed with diabetes as adults, said K. M. Venkat Narayan, executive director of the Emory Global Diabetes Research Center. Narayan is unaffiliated with the new findings, but had helped set up the SEARCH study years ago.
“Diabetes in youth, particularly type 2 diabetes in youth, is a far more serious disease than in older adults,” he said.
They should put down the devices, quit the pornography and video games and go outside, do some exploring. Better yet, turn to Jesus. He’s what your herat needs!
Clearly, COVID failed to thin the herd.
That’s because “body positivity” is about black bodies and we’re now being told that working out and staying in shape is white supremacy.
Because our youth are generally fat and lazy.
Add in pot smoking and they also become stupid.
Ba-dum ching!
Now, you've done it. You've insulted many Freeper's Allah.
They need to give up consuming products from woke corporations like Starbucks and Coca Cola.
I ought to feel guilty because other people make bad choices. Please punish me with higher taxes. I deserve it. [/s]
So what's a 21st century kid to do except sit all day in front of a computer playing video games?
Errr, isn't this really about persistent self-treatment by the victim class with sugar-laden soda pop 24/7/365?
Isn't the care with the major disparity the care of self? Isn't that what should be talked about—rather than trying to blame others for all the Coke, purple drank, and fries?
Physical inactivity is a factor.
Walk into a grocery and notice how more than 80% of the food available jacks up blood glucose.
People just don’t know they are killing themselves.
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Associated with Nivolumab after Second SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination, Japan.
And from the UK, their Deep State is blaming the victims...
Gotta explain all that carnage somehow, eh?
Wonder if any vaxx-related Type I cases are being called Type II to hide the involvement of a vaxx...
These numbers are skewed because the minority groups breed like rats hence more lazy asses and cookie munchers in minority groups.
As the mother of two Type 1 diabetics, I will flat out say that 95 percent of good blood sugar control rests with the diabetic. It's not racism, health equity, white supremacy, or moon spots. It's YOU and what YOU put in your mouth and dosing properly for your carbs. It's whether or not YOU decide to get exercise that helps with blood sugar control and it's YOU deciding to eat a donut or an apple.
This attitude of removing all responsibility for health off of the person and onto others chaps my ass. I've heard medical doctors (yes, black) testify in congressional hearings that higher incidences of maternal mortality in black women is NOT due to lifestyle choices but to racism in medical care, as if blacks are not expected to take care of themselves LIKE EVERYONE ELSE when they're pregnant. And not a single congressperson dared call bullshit.
What was never questioned was whether black women are fatter as a group than whites (they are), which lead to more complications, whether they were less diligent in going to their prenatal appointments (they are), whether they had a crappier diet (they do), or whether they had a higher rate of drinking/drugging while pregnant (I don't know).
Not a single congressperson dared ask any of those questions that must be asked to find out the real reasons why blacks have worse outcomes. Of course, that was never the point of the hearing, as we all know.
And now that we have been told that healthier eating exercise are examples of white supremacy, and even more shockingly, some people actually believe that, I expect to see even worse outcomes in the future.
Obviously Diabetes is racist.
I meant to say heart. My mistake
Good pun!
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