TY  - JOUR
T1  - Diabetes and nonrefractive visual impairment: The young have it
AU  - Musch DC, Gardner TW
Y1  - 2012/12/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.114286
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2403
EP  - 2404
VL  - 308
IS  - 22
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.114286
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.114286
ER  -