The number of young people in the country with diabetes and pre-diabetes has skyrocketed, jumping from 9 percent of the adolescent population a decade ago to 23 percent in 2008, new research finds.
The findings are from a study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
Researchers examined health data from about 3,400 adolescents ages 12 to 19 from 1999 through 2008, who were tracked between 1999 and 2008 as part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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