Report: Rate of Diabetes Skyrocketing in Children

May 6, 2014

Data from more than three million children under the age of 20 in five states — California, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina, and Washington, as well as select Native American reservations — was analyzed for this study, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found a 21 percent increase in Type 1 diabetes among kids up to age 19, and a 30 percent…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

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