ABSTRACT
The epidemic of type 2 diabetes is not only associated with an increasing number of people with diabetes within a given age group, the mean age at which it is diagnosed (and presumably commences) is becoming younger [10]. Type 2 diabetes in youth and children is becoming more prevalent with type 2 diabetes now becoming as common as type 1 diabetes in pediatric diabetes clinics [11]. Of great concern is the growth in the number of women of child-bearing age with type 2 diabetes who become pregnant with poor glucose control with both immediate and long term teratogenic effects-the latter increasing the risk of diabetes in the offspring [12; 13].
