Type II Diabetes Mellitus: No Longer Just Adults
- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SLACK, Inc. in Pediatric Annals
- Vol. 28 (9) , 589-593
- https://doi.org/10.3928/0090-4481-19990901-11
Abstract
Pediatric Annals | Historically, type II diabetes mellitus (formerly known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) has been considered a disease of adults and older individuals and not a pediatric condition. However, at the tum of the century it was recognized that some children who had diabetes presented with a mild and slowly progressive disease unlike type I diabetes mellitus.1 Type II diabetes mellitus is aKeywords
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