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Morbid overweight Three-year-old girl with life-threatening type 2 diabetes
In the US, a 3-year-old girl was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. This form of metabolic disease, also called "age sugar", usually occurs only from 40 years on. The small child suffered from extreme overweight.
Three-year-olds with "Alterszucker"
Doctors in the US have diagnosed type 2 diabetes in a 3-year-old child. This form of metabolic disease usually occurs only in people from about 40 years on, which is why it is sometimes referred to as "age-sugar". In Germany and other countries, although there has been an increase in childhood diabetes in recent years, it is usually the type 1 form. The news agency AFP reports that the doctor who treats the girl in the US - Michael Yafi - called on his colleagues at a diabetes congress in Stockholm to consider in future, even in very young patients, that they are going to type 1 suffered from type 2 That requires a different therapy.
Diabetes already in early childhood. Image: kwanchaichaiudom - fotolia Girl was extremely overweight
The young patient was reported to weigh 35 kilograms in diagnosing the disease. Normal at this age would be between eleven and 17 kilos. According to pediatrician Yafi, who works at the University of Texas in Houston, the girl had very poor eating habits. Overweight or obesity and unhealthy lifestyles are among the leading causes of diabetes. In addition to a diet that requires less fat and less sugar, most health professionals usually recommend more exercise for children to prevent obesity. Half a year after the diagnosis, the girl in the US had lost 75 percent of his weight because of his medical care, and the sugar level had returned to normal. (Ad)