Child health · UKMLA & AKT
Diabetes mellitus type 2
A free high-yield preview for the UKMLA Applied Knowledge Test, covering how to recognise this condition. The full SA Note notes add investigations, management and complications, with practice questions on this topic.
Key high-yield points
- Rising incidence driven by obesity epidemic; peaks during puberty (physiological insulin resistance from growth hormone surges)
- Disproportionately affects South Asian, Black African-Caribbean, and East Asian children
- Mechanism: insulin resistance → compensatory hyperinsulinaemia → beta cell exhaustion → relative insulin deficiency (no autoimmune destruction)
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