By Hao Lu
Diabetes trends among American youth shows the prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 increased among young people substantially over the past decade, according to medical research published in the China Medical Tribune.
Diabetes is now one of the major chronic diseases among American youth. An article from “Diabetes Care” found more 190,000 people under the age of 20 in the United States are affected by diabetes.
In the study, it showed the occurrence of diabetes goes up when children get older, and the risk for women to develop diabetes is higher than that for men.
Among all the 3,458,974 American youth under the age of 20 who participated in the study, 7,695 of them have diabetes. A total of 6,668 of them have Type 1 diabetes, while 837 of them developed Type 2 diabetes. Of the youth, 190 of them have other types of diabetes.
The study estimated that overall, there are 166,984 people under the age of 20 in the United States who have diabetes. In the survey, 166,984 of them had Type 1 and 20,262 of them had Type 2 diabetes.
| Category | Number of people with diabetes | Overall number of people | Prevalence rate/1000 |
| All | 7,695 | 3,458,974 | 2.22 |
| age 0-4 | 246 | 832,791 | 0.3 |
| age 5-9 | 1,184 | 844,923 | 1.4 |
| age 10-14 | 2,580 | 867,403 | 2.97 |
| age 15-19 | 3,685 | 913,857 | 4.03 |
| White | 5,085 | 1,885,451 | 2.7 |
| Black | 872 | 383,198 | 2.28 |
| Spanish | 1,403 | 809,267 | 1.73 |
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 210 | 260,846 | 0.8 |
| Female | 3,886 | 1,692,112 | 2.3 |
| Male | 3,809 | 1,766,862 | 2.16 |
