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Double Diabetes: The Evolving Treatment Paradigm in Children and Adolescents

Nwosu, Benjamin U.
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The global pandemic of obesity in children and adolescents has resulted in a new expression of diabetes mellitus designated as double diabetes. The entity encompasses the autoimmune load of Type 1 Diabetes and the metabolic load of Type 2 Diabetes. There is no consensus on the best therapeutic modality for this new expression of diabetes mellitus. Optimal therapeutic options must address the coexistence of both metabolic and autoimmune components of diabetes mellitus in the patient. There have also been calls to revise the current classification of diabetes mellitus to take into account the surging prevalence of double diabetes in children and adolescents.

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Nwosu BU (2013) Double Diabetes: The Evolving Treatment Paradigm in Children and Adolescents. Vitam Trace Elem 2: e118. doi:10.4172/2167- 0390.1000e118

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10.4172/2167- 0390.1000e118
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<p>Copyright: © 2013 Nwosu BU. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</p>
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