Objectives: To assess the frequency of youth onset Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in Jamaica and the characteristics of youth with this form of diabetes. Methods: Patients from two major referral hospitals, diagnosed with diabetes before age 25 years and 500pmol/L and or SCP ≥ 1160 pmol/l (iv) Untypeable diabetes – AB- and FCP 230–500 pmol/l and or SCP 660–1160 pmol/l and (v) Lipoatrophic diabetes – clinical phenotype and serum leptin. Results: Fifty-eight participants (21M, 37F, age 20 ± 8 years, duration of diabetes 2.6 ± 2 years) were enrolled in the study. Using the classification criteria, Type 1 diabetes was the most common form of diabetes: 18(31%) Type 1A, 18(31%) Type 1B. Overall 22% (13 patients) had T2D. Patients with T2D were...
Abstract Obesity epidemic in childhood/adolescence may influence the mode of presentation of diab...
OBJECTIVEdThe risk factors for middle-age onset of type 2 diabetes are well known. How-ever, informa...
Background: Most patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus < 35 years will have type 1 diabetes (...
Objective: To assess the effect of diabetes mellitus type on conventional and novel cardiovascular r...
Epidemiological studies on diabetes mellitus (DM) have been conducted in the Caribbean for more than...
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine Jamaican adolescents in a school setting, for risk ...
Introduction: Recent data show that the prevalence of diabetes among children and adolescents is inc...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in youth is emerging as a serious clinical entity and its ...
To report the 2001 prevalence and 2002-2005 incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Hispanic Amer...
2 diabetes in Hispanic American youth and to describe the demographic, clinical, and be-havioral cha...
Objectives To compare obese versus non-obese Jamaican adolescents’ risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) an...
Background: The incidence of type 2 diabetes in patients below the age of 40 (early onset diabetes) ...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in youth is emerging as a serious clinical entity and its ...
Foundation: to know the clinical characteristicas of people who suffer from diabetis mellitus is ind...
Objectives To compare obese versus non-obese Jamaican adolescents’ risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) an...
Abstract Obesity epidemic in childhood/adolescence may influence the mode of presentation of diab...
OBJECTIVEdThe risk factors for middle-age onset of type 2 diabetes are well known. How-ever, informa...
Background: Most patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus < 35 years will have type 1 diabetes (...
Objective: To assess the effect of diabetes mellitus type on conventional and novel cardiovascular r...
Epidemiological studies on diabetes mellitus (DM) have been conducted in the Caribbean for more than...
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine Jamaican adolescents in a school setting, for risk ...
Introduction: Recent data show that the prevalence of diabetes among children and adolescents is inc...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in youth is emerging as a serious clinical entity and its ...
To report the 2001 prevalence and 2002-2005 incidence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Hispanic Amer...
2 diabetes in Hispanic American youth and to describe the demographic, clinical, and be-havioral cha...
Objectives To compare obese versus non-obese Jamaican adolescents’ risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) an...
Background: The incidence of type 2 diabetes in patients below the age of 40 (early onset diabetes) ...
BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in youth is emerging as a serious clinical entity and its ...
Foundation: to know the clinical characteristicas of people who suffer from diabetis mellitus is ind...
Objectives To compare obese versus non-obese Jamaican adolescents’ risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) an...
Abstract Obesity epidemic in childhood/adolescence may influence the mode of presentation of diab...
OBJECTIVEdThe risk factors for middle-age onset of type 2 diabetes are well known. How-ever, informa...
Background: Most patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus < 35 years will have type 1 diabetes (...