Study: Complications more common in youths with type 2 versus type 1 diabetes

Adolescents and young adults with type 2 diabetes were more likely to have diabetic kidney disease, arterial stiffness, hypertension, peripheral neuropathy and retinopathy, compared with type 1 diabetes patients, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers used a cohort of 2,018 type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients and found that most type 1 diabetes patients were normal weight or overweight and were white, compared with type 2 diabetes patients, most of whom were obese or overweight and tended to be black.