BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in youth is emerging as a
serious clinical entity and its incidence has increased over the years.
AIM: To analyse the causes of DM in the age group of <40 years of
age. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: Tertiary care center; retroscpective analysis
of data from January 1990 to December 1999. METHODS AND MATERIAL:
Analysis of data of all the subjects of DM in whom disease started
before the 40th birthday. RESULT: 724 subjects were detected to have
diabetes mellitus before their 40th birthday. Of these, 205 had Type 1,
174 had Type 2 and 48 had Fipocalculous pancreatic diabetes. Males
outnumbered in Type 1 and Fipocalculous pancreatic diabetes while as
females in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Chronic complications were more
common in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. CONCLUSION: Type 2 diabetes
mellitus is becoming an important cause of diabetes in subjects with
onset of disease at younger age