TY - JOUR T1 - Diabetes and nonrefractive visual impairment: The young have it AU - Musch DC AU - Gardner TW Y1 - 2012/12/12 N1 - 10.1001/jama.2012.114286 JO - JAMA SP - 2403 EP - 2404 VL - 308 IS - 22 N2 - Type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disease most commonly encountered in older obese persons, has become endemic in teenagers and young adults. Evidence for the increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes in youth and adolescents has been well documented.1 Given the known risk of complications from diabetes, an increase in the prevalence of these complications over time would be expected among younger diabetics. In this issue of JAMA, Ko and colleagues2 provide evidence that this is likely happening in the US population. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.114286 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.114286 ER -