Knowing if an obese child might develop diabetes in later years could prompt parents to make the necessary lifestyle changes for their child to lose weight. That’s the rationale behind a pre-diabetes screening recommended by the American Diabetes Association. The association and its Canadian equivalent recommend testing for fasting blood sugar for obese children ages 10 and older who are at risk for type 2 diabetes.
Unfortunately, this current test that both the US and Canada use are “inadequate”, preliminary data showed at an Endocrine Society Meeting in Ontario. Instead, a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test used along with the …read more