Understanding Childhood Diabetes
September 23rd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
We all hear of diabetes in adults, but it is important to realize that children as well can suffer from this horrible disease.Childhood diabetes has two forms: type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 is the most common form in children, as 90-95 percent of children under the age of 16 suffer from this particular type. This type is classified as being a condition in which the body’s immune system attacks one of the body’s own tissues or organs. Read the rest of this entry »
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