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Editorial
. 2024 Feb;39(1):90-91.
doi: 10.3803/EnM.2024.102. Epub 2024 Feb 22.

Younger-Onset Diabetes: Is the Age of Onset More Important than the Duration of Diabetes?

Mee Kyoung Kim  1
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Younger-Onset Diabetes: Is the Age of Onset More Important than the Duration of Diabetes?

Mee Kyoung Kim. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2024 Feb.
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Mee Kyoung Kim is a deputy editor of the journal. But she was not involved in the peer reviewer selection, evaluation, or decision process of this article. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.

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Estimates of reduced life expectancy by age at diagnosis of type 2 diabetes compared with people without diabetes. Schematic illustration showing that at the age of 50 years, individuals who were diagnosed with diabetes when they were 30 years old died about 14 years earlier than individuals without diabetes; those diagnosed at the age of 40 years died around 10 years earlier, and those diagnosed at the age of 50 years died around 6 years earlier [1].
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