Advances in Childhood Diabetes

Dear Colleagues,

The incidence of type I autoimmune childhood diabetes is continuously increasing worldwide.

As genetic factors are stable, environmental factors, mainly viruses, have been implicated. The classic therapy with insulin has undergone many changes, from daily injections to pump delivery and a closed-loop artificial pancreas. As we are still missing an ideal treatment, early and late complications occur. The chronic character of this disease remains and no cure is in sight, causing psychosocial problems in parents and children.

Type 2 diabetes, related mainly to obesity, is also increasing in its incidence in both developed and underdeveloped countries.

Both types of diabetes have become public health problems, and research into the development of prevention interventions is urgently needed.

Prof. Dr. Zvi Laron
Guest Editor

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