Diabetes age of onset used to be a prime factor in determining the types of diabetes an individual had in addition to risk factors. For instance, if an eight year old had diabetes, one could generally assume he or she suffered from type 1 diabetes while a forty eight year old was probably a type 2 diabetic. The key to age onset diabetes was not simply one’s age but the risks they accumulated, as they grew older versus what virus or infections they were exposed to as a child. As such, most people who develop type 2 diabetes do so over a gradual period through poor habits like smoking tobacco or not exercising.

These lifestyle choices lead to blood vessel constriction, heart damage, and stroke, which increase an individual’s risk factor for conceiving diabetes, as well as complicating the disease. Children are unlikely to have these habits, so type 2 …