Catherine Pihoker and Santica Marcovina, two UW Diabetes Research Center affiliates, are authors on recent papers highlighting diabetes in youth. In the one study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on April 13, using data from the ongoing SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study they and their colleagues showed that between 2002 and 2012 the adjusted relative incidence rates of type 1 and type 2 diabetes among US youth had increased annually 1.8% and 4.8%, respectively. The highest annual rate of increase for type 1 diabetes was among Hispanic youth and among Native American youth for type 2 diabetes. The second study also used data from SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study and was published on February 28 in The Journal of the American Medical Association. In this study, it was found that in 1,746 youth with type 1 diabetes and 272 with type 2 diabetes who had been followed for an average of 7.9 years, both groups had diabetic complications. Those with type 2 diabetes had a greater risk of developing diabetic kidney disease, retinopathy and peripheral neuropathy than those with type 1 diabetes.