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Article: Guidelines for prediabetes screening, miss some kids.
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- August 15, 2008
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ESTES PARK, COLO. -- A2-hour oral glucose tolerance test is far more sensitive than the standard fasting blood glucose test in identifying obese children at increased risk for type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
Results of a recent Canadian study indicated that the current American Diabetes Association recommendation for prediabetes screening of obese children needed to be overhauled, said Dr. Walter L. Larimore, a Monument, Colo., family physician, at the annual conference of the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians.
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The ADA recommends using the fasting blood glucose (FBG) test to screen obese children aged 10 years ...