Investigating the Role of Childhood Adiposity in the Development of Adult Type 2 Diabetes in a 64-year Follow-up Cohort

Background: The contribution of childhood obesity to adult type 2 diabetes (T2DM), not through adult adiposity, as well as the causal pathways through which childhood obesity increases adult T2DM risk are not well understood. This study investigated the contribution of childhood obesity to incident T2DM including pathways not through adult adiposity, and explored whether race modified this contribution. Methods: We used data from the Virtual Los...