Further RISE’ing to the Challenge of Type 2 Diabetes in Youth

Despite three decades of increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in adolescents (1), the diabetes community continues to grapple with the pathophysiology of youth-onset T2D. Accumulating evidence indicates that when compared with T2D in adults, T2D in youth follows a more aggressive course (2–4). Adolescents are therefore entering adulthood with an advanced and perhaps misunderstood disease that puts them at risk for morbidity from micro-...