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Prevalence of Impaired Glucose Tolerance among Children and Adolescents with Marked Obesity

2002; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 346; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa012578

1533-4406

Ranjana Sinha, Gene S. Fisch, Barbara Teague, William V. Tamborlane, Bruna Banyas, K. Eileen Allen, Mary Savoye, Vera Rieger, Sara E. Taksali, Gina Barbetta, Robert S. Sherwin, Sonia Caprio,

Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Childhood obesity, epidemic in the United States, has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents. We determined the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance in a multiethnic cohort of 167 obese children and adolescents.