Diabetes Epidemiology

Study predicts rise in type 2 diabetes

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 22nd, 2003

When Ketchikan, Alaska, dietitian Carey Guthrie visits a middle-school classroom to talk about nutrition, she can spot the students most likely to become diabetic.

"You can kind of tell because people who are at risk tend to have the bigger bellies, the obesity around middle, and then with a lot of the kids we see what's called acanthosis nigricans, the darkening of skin in the back of the neck," said Guthrie, diabetes coordinator for the Ketchikan Indian Community Tribal Health Clinic.

Guthrie is among the Alaska health care providers watching for an expected rise in young people of type 2 diabetes, an ailment normally found in adults.

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