(Source: North Shore News, 21 February 2011)
The number of European children under 5 with type 1 diabetes could double by 2020, an alarming trend that suggests environmental factors may be playing a role, researchers said on Wednesday. They said cases of type 1, or juvenile, diabetes in older children will rise significantly as well, and the findings likely apply to children in other regions. They do not know what could be causing the increase.
"By 2020, the predicted number of new cases is 24,400, but this change is not shared evenly between the age groups, with incidence of type 1 diabetes in the youngest age group expected to double in both sexes," Dr. Chris Patterson of Queen's University in Belfast, Gyula Soltesz of Pecs University in Hungary and colleagues wrote in the Lancet medical journal. Read more
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