ABSTRACT
Twenty-five years later, one-third of all new cases of diabetes in patients age 10 to 19 years in the Cincinnati clinic were type 2 diabetes; the estimated age-specific incidence was 7.2/100,000, approximately one-half the incidence rate for type 1 diabetes in the childhood population. This was a tenfold increase from 1982 to 1994. The proportion of new cases of diabetes in children diagnosed as type 2 went from 2% to 4% before 1992, unchanged from Knowles’ 1971 prevalence figure of 3.7%, to 16% by 1994 (2).
