Dietary habits and leisure-time physical activity in relation to adiposity, dyslipidemia, and incident dysglycemia in the pathobiology of prediabetes in a biracial cohort study.

Background: Dietary and exercise data are frequently recorded in clinical research, but their correlation with metabolic measures needs further evaluation.

Objective: We examined the association of food and exercise habits with body size, lipid profile, and glycemia in a prospective biracial cohort.

Methods: The Pathobiology of Prediabetes in A Biracial Cohort study followed initially normoglycemic offspring of parents with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) for the occurrence of incident prediabetes, defined as impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and/or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).