Diabetes

CDC Funds Registries for Childhood Type 2 Disease

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 21st, 2001

With diabetes increasing at unprecedented rates among adults both in the United States and throughout the world, initial reports suggest a rise in type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents.

Thus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $1 million in cooperative agreements to establish a multicenter registry system to define childhood diabetes and to measure the disease burden among youth in the United States.

"An increase in type 2 diabetes in young people means that we are going to have more people - children and adults - with diabetes and they will have it for a longer time, which increases the rate of severe...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2001-01-21)

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