Management of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) in Children and Adolescents

1. Clinicians must ensure that insulin therapy is initiated for children and adolescents with T2DM who are ketotic or in diabetic ketoacidosis and in whom the distinction between types 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus is unclear and, in usual cases, should initiate insulin therapy for patients

1. who have random venous or plasma BG concentrations ≥250 mg/dL; or
2. whose HbA1c is 9%.

(E, Weak)