Comorbidities and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents
Pediatric Diabetes, 11/20/2007
Dean, H.J., et al. - The comorbidities of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents are mainly related to coexistent insulin resistance and compounded by poverty. The prevalence of dyslipidemia, fatty liver, and hypertension may not be higher than the rates in obese children and adolescents, but the stakes are higher in children with diabetes because the diabetes confers a higher cardiovascular risk






