Type II Diabetes Mellitus: No Longer Just Adults

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 a