The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth multicenter study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has determined that
- Based on data from 2002 to 2003, a total of 15,000 youth in the United States were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes each year. In addition, about 3,700 youth were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each year.
- non-Hispanic white youth had the highest rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes.
- type 2 diabetes was rarely diagnosed among youth younger than 10 years of age.
Additional information about specific rates of new cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youth younger than age 20 can be found in the fact sheet National Diabetes Statistics, 2007, available online at www.diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics.
