May 3, 2014 USA
jdrf.org: SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Showing a 21 Percent Increase in Type 1 Diabetes Among American Youth
May 3, 2014, New York, NY–Richard Insel, M.D., chief scientific officer of JDRF, issued the following statement today in response to a new study showing an increase in type 1 diabetes (T1D) among young people in the United States. According to the latest SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the prevalence of T1D in people under age 20 years rose by 21 percent between 2001 and 2009.
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