It was announced in the American Public Health Association that children at different ages are taking drugs and medicines originally made for adults? treatment. These drugs are made to treat adults for heart disease which are caused by eating too much and lack of exercises. Also there was an increase of the usage of blood pressure, cholesterol, asthma and depression medications and drugs by teens.



This research studied the prescription medicine records of 3.5 million children with private health insurance between 2002 and 2005. The researchers found that there is an increase of using heart disease and type 2 diabetes medicine and drugs.

The study which took 4 years of testing and analysis found that teenagers? and children's use of heart related medicine has increased as Emily Cox, senior director of research at Express Scripts said. The results showed that there is an increase in type 2 diabetes prescriptions among girls aged between 10 and 14 by 166 percent and an increase of type 2 diabetes prescriptions of 135 percent among girls older than 15 years.

The main reason of the increase of diabetes among children and teenagers is the high number of obese children. The statistics shows that there is a sharp increase of obesity among children and teenagers in the U.S. which led to the increase of heart diseases. Although it is difficult to determine the number of children and teenagers who have diabetes and heart disease, the number will raise.