Association between impaired fasting glycaemia in pediatric obesity and type 2 diabetes in young adulthood

In adults, impaired fasting glycemia (IFG) increases the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This study aimed to investigate to which extent children with obesity develop T2DM during early adulthood, and to determine whether IFG and elevated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in obese children are risk markers for early development of T2DM.In this prospective cohort study, 1620 subjects from the Swedish Childhood Obesity Treatment Registry - BORIS who...