Prevalence of diabetes in U.S. youth in 2009: the SEARCH for diabetes in youth study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the prevalence of diabetes in U.S. youth aged <20 years in 2009 and to estimate the total number of youth with diabetes in the U.S. by age, race/ethnicity, and diabetes type.

Research design and methods

To address one of its primary aims, the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study identified youth aged <20 years on 31 December 2009 with physician-diagnosed diabetes in selected areas of Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina, and Washington, among health plan members of Kaiser Permanente Southern California and among American Indians living on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico. Diabetes was classified as type 1, type 2, or other. Race/ethnicity was by self-report.

Results

From a population of 3,458,974 youth aged <20 years, 7,695 youth with diabetes were

SUBMITTER: Pettitt DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3898760 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature