«The increases in prevalence reported herein are important because such youth with diabetes will enter adulthood with several years of disease duration, difficulty in treatment, an increased risk of early complications, and increased frequency of
diabetes during reproductive years, which may further increase diabetes in the next generation,» the researchers write.
The World Health Organization and United Nations this
year concluded: «Exposure to E.D.C.s
during fetal development and puberty plays a role in the increased incidences of
reproductive diseases, endocrine - related cancers, behavioral and learning problems, including A.D.H.D., infections, asthma, and perhaps obesity and
diabetes in humans.»