Which type of Diabetes is more common within children?

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are both an unwanted disease, but type 1 is worse than type 2. Children under 10 years old are more likely to get type 1 diabetes rather than type 2. Children 10-19 years old are likely to get type 2 diabetes instead of type 1 (NIDDK). Why are so many children getting diabetes and why is type 1 so popular?

Since diabetes is common in the United States and more common for different ethnics I have found information on some ethnics. After adjusting for population age differences, 2007–2009 national survey data for people ages 20 years or older indicate that 7.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 8.4 percent of Asian Americans, 11.8 percent of Hispanics/ Latinos, and 12.6 percent of non-Hispanic blacks had diagnosed diabetes. Among Hispanics/Latinos, rates were 7.6 percent for both Cuban Americans and for Central and South Americans, 13.3 percent for Mexican Americans, and 13.8 percent for Puerto Ricans (NIDDK).

During 2002–2005, 15,600 youth were newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes annually, and 3,600 youth were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes annually. Among youth ages younger than 10 years, the rate of new cases was 19.7 per 100,000 each year for type 1 diabetes and 0.4 per 100,000 for type 2 diabetes. Among youth ages 10 years or older, the rate of new cases was 18.6 per 100,000 each year for type 1 diabetes and 8.5 per 100,000 for type 2 diabetes. Non-Hispanic white youth had the highest rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes—24.8 per 100,000 per year among those younger than 10 years and 22.6 per 100,000 per year among those ages 10–19 years. Type 2 diabetes was extremely rare among youth ages younger than 10 years. While still infrequent, rates were greater among youth ages 10–19 years than in younger children, with higher rates among U.S. minority populations than in non-Hispanic whites. Among non-Hispanic white youth ages 10–19 years, the rate of new cases was higher for type 1 than for type 2 diabetes. For Asian/Pacific Islander Americans and American Indian youth ages 10–19 years, the opposite was true—the rate of new cases was greater for type 2 than for type 1 diabetes. Among non-Hispanic black and Hispanic/Latino youth ages 10–19 years, the rates of new cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes were similar (NIDDK). Within just 3 years 15,600 people were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

Rate of new cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youth ages younger than 20 

    years, by race/ethnicity, 2002-2005 . N.d. National Diabetes information 

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     United States, 2002-2005." NDIC. NIDDK, n.d. Web. 4 Apr. 2011.       <http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics/#Racial>.