RT Journal
A1 Musch DC, Gardner TW
T1 Diabetes and nonrefractive visual impairment: The young have it
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD December 12
VO 308
IS 22
SP 2403
OP 2404
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.114286
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.114286
AB 
Type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disease most commonly encountered in older obese persons, has become endemic in teenagers and young adults. Evidence for the increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes in youth and adolescents has been well documented.1 Given the known risk of complications from diabetes, an increase in the prevalence of these complications over time would be expected among younger diabetics. In this issue of JAMA, Ko and colleagues2 provide evidence that this is likely happening in the US population.