( The childhood obesity epidemic has caug...)Number of Children Hospitalized With Type 2 Diabetes on the Rise: Research,Health

The childhood obesity epidemic has caught the nations attention. This epidemic continues unabated, accompanied by a range of complicated and costly medical problems that threaten not just to shorten our childrens lives, but to increase medical spending and medical care use of children and young adults. It also diminishes the quality of life and capacity to make contributions to the social capital that propels a nation such as ours for vast numbers of our nations children and young adults.

One of the most troubling complications of childhood obesity is that it is pushing way up the numbers of children and young adults with what is called Type 2 diabetes, a disease that as recently as a decade ago occurred almost exclusively among older adults. This increase in numbers of affected children is well recognized.

Pediatric researchers at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine utilized federally funded and collected data that demonstrates an approximately 200% increase in hospitalizations for children with Type 2 diabetes between 1997 and 2003. Their work was presented today at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Toronto.

What we believe has not ever been documented before about the childhood obesity epidemic and its complications is that the rates of hospitalizations of children for the treatment of complications of Type 2 diabetes have already been increasing at an alarming rate over the past decade, with implications for virtually all aspects of society. We believe that the findings we present in this paper may be the first such data reported on national rates and trends in hospitalization of children with this disease, says senior researcher on the study, Michael Weitzman MD. Using nationally representative data derived from hospital discharge records of US children from 1997, 2000 and 2003, trends in hospitalization rates, length of stay and costs were compared for children with Type 2 diabete
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