JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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The burden and determinants of complications and comorbidities in contemporary youth-onset diabetes are unknown. ⋯ Among teenagers and young adults who had been diagnosed with diabetes during childhood or adolescence, the prevalence of complications and comorbidities was higher among those with type 2 diabetes compared with type 1, but frequent in both groups. These findings support early monitoring of youth with diabetes for development of complications.