date:Jul 27, 2012
opkin said. In addition, more than one-third of children under age 18 had high levels of at least one cardiometabolic risk factor.
Comparing the Chinese data with data from the United States based on National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) results, the authors found that diabetes and inflammation rates were higher in the Chinese pediatric population than in the U.S. pediatric population or in other Asian countries. Researchers found 1.9 percent of Chinese children age 12-18 had diabetes, c