17 Nov 2025

How Kiwi kids are becoming the new face of 'adult' diabetes

From The Detail, 4:00 am on 17 November 2025

Type 1 diabetes used to be called 'juvenile diabetes', and type 2 affected adults. But that's no longer the case, and the number of kids with type 2 in New Zealand is rising.

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