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More young adults are living with diabetes

Three years ago, at age 24, Durbin's doctor told him he had type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure. More than 300 pounds at the time, Durbin knew that if he didn't take action, he faced the possibility of an early death.

"I was probably pushing about 340 when I was first diagnosed. As far as the physical changes go, within about three months or so of being diagnosed I dropped about 40 pounds," says Durbin, of Fort Wayne , Ind., who takes a dozen medications now. Always a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, he says he had to learn to eat in moderation and now opts for sugar-free foods more often.

The experience has changed how he looks at his personal life, too. Durbin and his girlfriend of nine years postponed the idea of marriage, and he is not sure about starting a family.

"I don't like the thought that I could have a kid and he could end up with diabetes down the road. And one of the troubling thoughts I have is if something were to happen to me, (his wife) would be left alone as a mother. You really have to stop and think about these things," Durbin says.

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.

As diabetes becomes more prevalent in young people, the long-term complications of the condition — cardiovascular problems like high blood pressure and high cholesterol, nerve damage, blindness and kidney failure — are more likely to occur at younger ages, too, says David Kendall, chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association .

"Children and young adults, and young middle-aged people, are the groups in which the rates are apparently growing the fastest," Kendall says.

Leading diabetes experts will gather Friday in San Diego for the group's 71st Scientific Sessions to present new research and discuss the steady rise of diabetes, which afflicts an estimated 25.8 million adults and children in the USA.

The obesity epidemic — the fallout of people eating more junk food and getting less exercise — is an obvious factor in the rise in diabetes cases among the young, says Martin Abrahamson, chief medical officer at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

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