Hello Diabetes: Diabetes in Young, was recorded at Akashwani Nagpur on the 23rd of December 2022 with Dr. Sunil Gupta & Dr. Kavita Gupta. The number of young people with diabetes is gradually increasing in India. Almost every 4th newly detected person with diabetes is of less than 30yrs age. The prevalence is also slowly increasing in rural population due to rapid urbanisation of their lifestyle. Early onset of diabetes in young age is going to have a big burden on the health care system. Diabetes in young can be a case of Type 1 DM (Insulin dependent DM), Type 2 DM of young (commonly have strong family history of DM, Obesity etc), LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of Adult) which presents at young age as T2DM and responds to oral glucose lowering drugs but ultimately get converted to insulin dependent Type 1 DM within 1year, They are (GAD 65 antibody Positive) and Maturity onset Diabetes of Young (MODY), which responds to oral drugs (Sulphonylurea).
