chapter Introduction global evolution of diabetes in children and adolescents -- chapter Diagnosis and classification of type 2 diabetes in childhood and adolescence -- Diagnosis -- chapter Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in North America -- chapter 4 Type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents in Asia -- chapter 5 Childhood and adolescent obesity -- chapter Insulin resistance and insulin secretion in childhood and adolescence: their role in type 2 diabetes in youth -- chapter In-utero undernutrition and glucose homeostasis later in life -- chapter Clinical manifestations of the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes in childhood and adolescence -- chapter 9 Treatment of type 2 diabetes -- chapter 10 Long-term outcome of type 2 diabetes in adolescence -- chapter The genetics of type 2 diabetes, MODY, and other syndromes.