Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, November 13th (Reporter Shuicai) As the United Nations Diabetes Day is approaching, experts reminded that in recent years, with the overweight and obesity of adolescents and children, it has become a public health problem, as well as long-term excessive consumption of sugary beverages.
Zhou Zhiguang, chief physician of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and director of the National Metabolic Diseases Clinical Medicine Research Center, said that most of the diabetes in adolescents and children is type 1 diabetes, which is caused by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β-cell function and lack of insulin secretion
According to Li Xuejun, professor of neurosurgery at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, adolescent obesity is a risk factor for chronic diseases in children such as diabetes
Jin Ping, director of the Department of Endocrinology at the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, reminded that diabetes is irreversible.
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