Publication date: Nov 06, 2024
The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is increasing in young people worldwide. This study evaluated the frequency and clinical characteristics of young people presenting with type 2 diabetes from the multinational SWEET e. V Registry 2012-2021, including the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a longitudinal observational study based on the SWEET Registry, which collects demographic and clinical data on children and adolescents with diabetes from centres worldwide, with the diagnosis and classification of diabetes provided locally by each centre according to International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes definitions. By July 2022, the SWEET Registry included 96,931 individuals from 130 centres with a total of 1,154,555 visits. Data were analysed by region: Europe (EU), Australia and New Zealand (AU/NZ), South America (SA), North America (NA) and Asia/Middle East and Africa (AS/AF). Trends in proportions for the two-year periods, calculated as cases with type 2 diabetes diagnoses over all cases with diabetes diagnoses, were estimated using logistic regression models adjusted for age at onset and sex. Overall, there were 2819 of 58,170 new cases (4. 8%) with type 2 diabetes: 614 in EU, 293 in AU/NZ, 79 in SA, 1211 in NA and 622 in AS/AF. The proportion of type 2 diabetes increased from 3. 2% to 6. 0% from 2012/2013 to 2020/2021, a relative rate of increase of 9% per two-year period (95% CI 5. 9, 12. 3; p
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| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Diabetes | Adolescents |
| July | Children |
| Sex | Geographical variability |
| Temporal trends | |
| Type 2 diabetes |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | type 2 diabetes |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |