USA Today: More young adults have diabetes

Experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing number of people in their 20s and 30s coping with type 2 diabetes, which used to be rarely seen in those under 40, making long-term complications like amputation more likely to occur. Eric Choi, chief of vascular surgery at Temple's School of Medicine, says they are seeing more younger patients in need of limb salvage work, and that out of the 40 or 50 amputations performed last year, "easily 10 were in patients 45 and under. That's a troubling trend."
USA Today | June 22, 2011