Intergenerational diabetes and obesity—A cycle to break?

Globally, efforts to prevent diabetes and obesity have attained mixed success. Although prevalence of adult-onset diabetes is declining in some countries, the prevalence of childhood obesity and young-onset diabetes, with risk of associated complications, continues to increase in many high- and lower-income countries. More than 1. 9 billion children and adults are overweight and obese, and prevalence is rapidly rising, with the greatest increase found among children