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Juvenile diabetes is a condition related to the teens and people who are aged under twenty. There are several reasons why juvenile diabetes is caused among children. Sometimes it can be a genetically passed on disease and children may also have it if the mother had gestational diabetes during pregnancy. |
If a child is obese, it might be one of the reasons for juvenile diabetes. Finding out how the diabetes occurred is a very difficult task and there is no way to find out. It is a multifactoral situation in several people. Diabetes is a condition that is an autoimmune disease and it can also be caused due to environmental conditions or viral attacks. Juvenile diabetes is also autoimmune disease in which hampers the function of the beta cell in the body. Once these beta cells are destroyed the body will be able to produce insulin.
Also type one diabetes, or hypoglycemia, can be caused in children when the immune system has been abused and made aggressive. Pancreas produces adequate insulin exactly required for the body and when some alteration is caused to this function the pancreas may stop producing the insulin or generate more. Such a condition may arise only during virus attacks where the defensive organs of the body are over stimulated. This is the only logical reason that exists in a child who has juvenile diabetes without having any family history of it.
Today, in the United States, at least 10 percent to 15 percent of children suffer from the condition. And among these children most of them are obese. Every year in the United States at least 35 children are diagnosed with the condition.
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