VIDEO: Increase in number of children with type 2 diabetes causes concern

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Type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and diabetes that complicates pregnancy are all on the rise. They continue to be on the rise even as we address some of the underlying factors. There's some still-evolving data about the relationship of COVID and result in diabetes, but I would say that we continue to see an increase, and particularly what I'm most concerned about is that we're seeing a significant increase in type 2 diabetes in children. And so this is something that was pretty rare before, but it's becoming pretty common. We're about to open up a pediatric diabetes type 2 clinic. And we know that when you're younger, the condition progresses more rapidly and it's less responsive to treatment. So that's a really big deal, and we're going have to refocus our efforts on that pediatric population.