The Current Screening Test For Prediabetes In Children Results In Frequent Inaccurate Diagnoses

Kudos, fatsos. Nutritional child abuse is more prevalent than we think.

"Obese children, who are at increased risk for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, may not be getting the most appropriate test to screen for these conditions, a new Canadian study found. Results were presented at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco...

The authors studied 172 obese children, ages 5 to 17, who joined a program to help attain a healthy weight. All children had evaluation of risk factors for diabetes (or its precursor, prediabetes) and metabolic syndrome, including testing of blood sugar. Using the glucose stress test, the researchers found that 25 percent of the children met the diagnostic criteria for prediabetes. But when they relied on results of the fasting blood glucose test, as recommended by the American and Canadian diabetes associations, they found that only 8 percent of the children had prediabetes.

'A large proportion of the children with prediabetes would not have had their condition recognized,' Morrison said."

Stop the child abuse.