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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2002

A study of 86 Aboriginal patients who developed diabetes at a young age has raised alarm for health researchers.

The patients were tracked by the University of Manitoba starting in 1986. Researchers looked at their health records over time and found early death, kidney failure, blindness and high rates of miscarriage and stillbirth among the group.

The study suggests that aggressive measures are needed to combat complications arising from Type II diabetes, which normally affects adults but has been showing up in Native children in higher rates.

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Diabetic Children Suffer as Young Adults, Study Finds (The Washington Post 6/17)