juvenile diabetes

noun

: type 1 diabetes

Examples of juvenile diabetes in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In patients with type 1 diabetes—once known as juvenile diabetes because it’s usually diagnosed in children—the pancreas makes no insulin of its own, so those with the disease must work hard to mimic that organ’s function. —IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2015

Other parents of children with juvenile diabetes weighed in with podcast and supply-company recommendations, practical tips, testimonials and more. —Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024

Her older brother, Charles, had juvenile diabetes, which was comparatively dangerous and rare in the nineteen-sixties. —Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024

At the age of 13, he got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (aka juvenile diabetes). —Jon Niccum, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2024

Type 1 diabetes primarily affects kids—in fact, the condition used to be called juvenile diabetes—and every 35 in 10,000 people under the age of 20 have it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). —Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Nov. 2023

While the state does not collect juvenile diabetes statistics on a county level, residents of the Black Belt have traditionally had some of the highest rates of diabetes in the country due to a combination of factors, including genetics and living in an economically underdeveloped region. —al, 20 Sep. 2022

Type 1 diabetes, previously known as juvenile diabetes, is the most severe form of the disease, and about 5% of people who have diabetes have type 1, according to DRIF, whose mission is to provide the Diabetes Research Institute with the funding necessary to cure diabetes. —Jennifer Shapiro-Sacks, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2021

In just one example, it was thought that if stem cells could be made to produce healthy pancreatic cells, juvenile diabetes might be cured. —John Johnson Jr., Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for juvenile diabetes

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• philoctetes

Medical Definition

juvenile diabetes

noun

variants also juvenile-onset diabetes

: type 1 diabetes