Over the past 10 years, the disease has increased 4.8% per year, according to data from five US states.
The United States could well face a new type of epidemic: type 2 diabetes. This disease, which generally manifests itself in adulthood in overweight people over 40 years old, is nevertheless growing strongly there. teens, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. T2D would even be discovered in infants.
To obtain these results, the researchers analyzed health data from young people aged 10 to 19 living mainly in five US states: California, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina and Washington. They determined that 12.5 in 100,000 young people had type 2 diabetes in 2011-2012 compared to 9 in 100,000 in 2002-2003. That is an increase of 4.8% per year, which betrays the ravages of obesity among young Americans. It is estimated that 17% of young Americans are obese today, three times more than in the 1970s.
Gender and ethnic disparities
However, the increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes is not the same between the different groups that make up this panel.
For example, racial and ethnic disparities are obvious. They already existed in 2003 – since the incidence of T2DM was then 4.4 in 100,000 for whites against 22.6 for Amerindians – but they have increased since. In 2012, whites still had the lowest incidence and Native Americans the highest, but the gap is widening, from 3.9 to 46.5 per 100,000 people.
White people are also the only ethnic group in the panel not to have observed an increase in the incidence of T2DM. Among the other groups, young people of Asian origin have 12.2 in 100,000 cases of type 2 diabetes, 18.2 in 100,000 for Latinos, and 32.6 in 100,000 for black Americans.
Disparities exist not only among ethnic groups but also between genders. Thus if the incidence of T2DM was seven cases per 100,000 boys, and 11.1 per 100,000 girls in 2002-2003, it was 9 cases per 100,000 boys and 16.2 cases per 100,000 girls in 2011-2012. Growth is therefore stronger for girls than for boys.
In the United States, 75,000 die of diabetes each year. In France, 90% of diabetics suffer from T2DM.
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