# Diabetes Diagnoses (T1 & T2) Increasing in the Young

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581>\
**Category:** D-News\
**Tags:** pathogenesis, cwd, youth, type-1, type-2\
**Created:** [April 23, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581 "2017-04-23T01:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![docslotnick](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/docslotnick/32/75_2.png) [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581/1 "2017-04-23T01:31:03Z")

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“The incidences of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youths increased significantly in the 2002–2012 period, particularly among youths of minority racial and ethnic group”

So says a new research article from the New England Journal of Medicine.

The abstract doesn’t state the reasons this has been happening, it just presents the shocking statistics. Full article is behind a paywall.

> **[Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002–2012 | NEJM](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1610187)**
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> Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002–2012

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**Author:** ![TiaG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/tiag/32/594_2.png) [@TiaG](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TiaG)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581/2 "2017-04-23T01:46:40Z")

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So I read some news articles about it. T2 has been increasing way more; the likely cause is an increase in child obesity. The rise in T1 is more baffling.

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**Author:** ![Chris](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/chris/32/382_2.png) [@Chris](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Chris)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581/3 "2017-04-23T03:01:49Z")

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I don’t know, when my son I was diagnosed they said he most likely had a genetic predisposition and that it was triggered by the virus he acquired a few months prior to diagnosis. If there is a strain of a virus that is more likely to trigger this and it is getting passed around more, voila more T1 patients. Not very comforting, but at least it is one possible cause.

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**Author:** ![lh378](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/lh378/32/601_2.png) [@lh378](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/lh378)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/diabetes-diagnoses-t1-t2-increasing-in-the-young/581/4 "2017-04-28T13:02:16Z")

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I’m not an expert but the causes for T1 - autoimmune related- genetics, vs T2- can be lessened with lifetstyle changes management and medication may provide “clues”.