Weight tracking in childhood and adolescence and type 2 diabetes risk.

ABSTRACT:

Aims/hypothesis

The aim of this work was to examine the associations of average weight and weight velocity in three growth periods from birth through adolescence with type 2 diabetes incidence.

Methods

Child participants were selected from a 43 year longitudinal study of American Indians to represent three growth periods: pre-adolescence (birth to ~8 years); early adolescence (~8 to ~13 years); and late adolescence (~13 to ~18 years). Age-, sex- and height-standardised weight z score mean and weight z score velocity (change/year) were computed for each period. Participants were followed for up to 25 years from the end of each growth period until they developed diabetes. Associations of weight z score mean or weight z score velocity with diabetes incidence were determined wit

SUBMITTER: Olaiya MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9519170 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature