Type 2 Diabetes in High-risk Youth: Improving Identification and Interventions in Community Health with a Decade of Quality Improvement Efforts.

Introduction: This manuscript describes quality improvement interventions with aims (1) to increase identification and follow-up testing of youth with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes (T2D) and (2) to improve outcomes for youth with prediabetes and low-range T2D (HbA1c 6.5-6.9%).

Longitudinal follow up of dysglycemia in overweight and obese pediatric patients.

Objective: To examine factors related to progression of dysglycemia in overweight and obese youth in a large primary care setting.

Research Design And Methods: 10- to 18-year-old youth with body mass index (BMI) > 85 percentile and first-time A1c 5.7%-7.

Presence of the metabolic syndrome in obese adolescents predicts impaired glucose tolerance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Purpose: To evaluate whether the presence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in obese adolescents is associated with other comorbidities of obesity

Methods: A total of 85 obese teens (70% female and 30% male) with fasting insulin >25 microU/ml and family history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and/or acanthosis nigricans were studied. Mean age was 15.8 +/- 1.