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SUBMITTER: Trico D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459710 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tricò Domenico D Galderisi Alfonso A Mari Andrea A Santoro Nicola N Caprio Sonia S
Diabetes, obesity & metabolism 20190228 5
<h4>Aims</h4>One-hour post-load hyperglycaemia has been proposed as an independent predictor of type 2 diabetes in adults. We examined whether 1-hour plasma glucose (1hPG) during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) can predict changes in the glucose tolerance status of a multi-ethnic cohort of youths with normal glucose tolerance (NGT).<h4>Materials and methods</h4>A total of 202 obese youths with NGT (33.7% Caucasian, 31.1% Hispanic, 32.2% African American) underwent a 3-hour OGTT at baseline ...[more]