title: Type II diabetes no longer just an adult disease.
abstract: We keep hearing that our kids--the TV and junk food generation--are increasingly overweight. Now come two studies that show these obese teens are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, a disease rarely seen in people under 40 just 10 years ago. Find out why diabetes experts think the disease is spreading to children, and what you can do about it.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009765:Obesity; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology