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54th Annual ESPE

Barcelona, Spain
01 Oct 2015 - 03 Oct 2015

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Type 2 Diabetes & Obesity

hrp0084s6.1 | Type 2 Diabetes & Obesity | ESPE2015

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hrp0084s6.3 | Type 2 Diabetes & Obesity | ESPE2015

From Obesity to Type 2 Diabetes

Arslanian Silva

With the ever escalating trajectory of childhood obesity, rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (T2DM) are on the incline. Impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) constitute a state of prediabetes with high risk for the development of T2DM. Among U.S. adolescents 12–19 years of age, NHANES 2005–2006, the prevalence of IFG, IGT and prediabetes was 13.1, 3.4 and 16.1%, respectively. Overweight adolescents had a 2.6-fold higher rate tha...