Type II Diabetes does occur at younger age too, it is always not the maturity onset Diabetes Mellitus of Middle-aged or elderly, sometimes it is called MODY as it is found in less than 2% people due to some genetic variation but are not always on Insulin dependant as in Type I Diabetes but can be managed by drug, diet, and exercise too. Early onset T2DM subjects are at substantial risk of developing diabetes complications in later years but A total of 2733 subjects were identified, of which 527 had diabetes diagnosed below the age of 40 years. By the sixth decade of life, early onset cohort experienced high complication burden (CVD: 37.2%, retinopathy: 59.3% and neuropathy: 53.1%).
Complication prevalence increased with diabetes duration but the increment rate was greater among early onset cohort. Compared with those diagnosed after 40. Early onset cohort experienced the similar burden…
