This finding usually indicates diabetes, but she didn’t test positive for type 1 diabetes.
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Dr. Michael Yafi, one of the specialists to handle the toddler diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, warns parents that young children with the said condition are most likely left undiagnosed because of incorrect assumptions that they can’t acquire diabetes because of their young age.
Doctors say an “uncontrolled” calorie intake and “poor” family diet led to the girl weighting 5st 7lb, raising concerns about childhood obesity.
Dr Yafi said: “Reversal of type 2 diabetes in children is possible by early screening of obese children, early diagnosis, appropriate therapy and lifestyle modification”.
“I’m sure there probably are others but they are either un-diagnosed or not reported yet”, Yafi said.
A new diabetes drug marketed by Eli Lilly & Co. and Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH sharply reduced the risk of heart- related death in a large clinical trial, researchers said, marking the first time a diabetes medicine has shown such a benefit against cardiovascular disease.
Both doctors were in Stockholm, where the study results were announced on Thursday at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes congress, a prestigious worldwide meeting on the disease.
A three-and-a-half year-old Hispanic female presented to the paediatric endocrinology clinic where Dr Yafi is based for evaluation of obesity.
The researchers estimated that 11.7 percent of cases of Type-2 diabetes in men and 2.4 percent in women (about 27.8 million cases in total worldwide) may be attributable to active smoking. She also had normal blood glucose levels, an HbA1c of 5.3% and was no longer taking metformin.
Six months later the girl had lost 9kg (1st 7lb) and her blood sugar levels were within the healthy range.
“We advise smokers with diabetes who want to stop smoking to use licensed nicotine products or electronic cigarettes which will deal with any cravings and will help them manage their diet to avoid putting on excess weight”. Type 2 diabetes was unknown in children in the United Kingdom before 2002.
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A study of 6,467 children from England found that no garden access for lower educated households (children age three-five years) increased the odds of obesity at seven years by 38 percent.
