Early-onset diabetes: an epidemic in China

higher proportion of early-onset diabetes has been observed to be highly prevalent in Asian countries [1,9]. In a study conducted in 2001 among 9243 patients from 194 primary care centers across Asia, the proportion of T2DM patients diagnosed before the age of 30varied from 0.5% in Taiwan (China) and 1.5% in Korea to 5.4% in the Philippines [10]. ................
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