The Changing “Face” of the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic
Clinical Trials Thursday, May 30th, 2013Diabetes Care: June 1, 2013
Recent reports demonstrate an incredibly worrisome finding, specifically that there is an increased frequency of type 2 diabetes in youth. Given the importance of the problem of type 2 diabetes in youth and the need to effectively disseminate the information, our editorial team has elected to feature the TODAY study in this issue of Diabetes Care. Specifically, manuscripts from TODAY featured in this issue provide new data on the efficacy and safety of clinical treatment and longitudinal observation of specific risk factors and complications for the new “faces” for the type 2 diabetes epidemic, namely adolescents. Read more