Main description:

As the incidence of childhood obesity continues to dramatically increase, the emergence of type 2 and the increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in young people demonstrate that childhood diabetes, like adult onset diabetes, is a complex and heterogeneous condition presenting new obstacles to the practicing clinician. Epidemiology of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes is the first source on the market to address this critical paradigm shift and offer insights and recommendations as to how clinicians can better care for this growing patient population.

Epidemiology of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes:

is the first book devoted specifically to the epidemiology of diabetes in children and adolescents
examines the prevalence and clinical manifestations of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents
reviews clinical trials and outcomes, risk factors, complications, and interventions
includes practical discussions pertaining to environmental and behavioral risk factors, genetics, screening, treatment and prevention, and how they relate to the type 1 and 2 diabetes in adolescents

Contents:

Introduction. Definition, Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes in Youth. Descriptive Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth: Incidence, Incidence and Secular Trends. Genetic Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes. Early Life Diet and Risk of Type 1 Diabetes. Environmental Determinants: The Role of Viruses. Can we Slow the Increasing Incidence of Autoimmune Diabetes? The Accelerator and the Overload Hypotheses. Descriptive Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: Prevalence, Incidence and Secular Trends: Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Youth. Insulin Resistance vs. Decreased Insulin Secretion as Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes: High and Low Birth Weights as Risk Factors. Monogenic Forms of Diabetes in the Young. Natural Evolution, Prediction and Prevention of Type 1 Diabetes in Youth. Screening and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth. Chronic Complications of Childhood Diabetes. Cardiovascular. The Epidemiology of Acute Complications:Disease Risk Factors. Dietary Factors in Youth with Diabetes; Childhood Diabetes: Health Care Quality, Utilization and Cost. Treatment Patterns in Youth with Diabetes. Psychosocial Issues in Childhood Diabetes. Quality of Care and Quality of Life for Youth with Diabetes.