Diabetes onset before age 40: more and more often it is type 2 diabetes

Esordio del diabete prima dei 40 anni: sempre più spesso è tipo 2

Authors

  • Viola Sanga UOC Endocrinologia, Diabetologia e Malattie del Metabolismo, AOUI Verona e Università di Verona, Verona - Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4735-1636

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19156/abtpn.2018.0058

Keywords:

Type 2 diabetes, Early onset, Empagliflozin, Insulin

Abstract

An increase in the appearance of diabetes mellitus at young age is observed, and not necessarily type 1 diabetes is involced. We report the case of a 35-year-old patient, with a family history of diabetes, with type 2 diabetes at onset (Diabetology).