Utility of Childhood Glucose Homeostasis Variables in Predicting Adult Diabetes and Related Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: The Bogalusa Heart Study | Zendy

Quoc Manh Nguyen | Zendy; Gerald S. Berenson | Zendy

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Utility of Childhood Glucose Homeostasis Variables in Predicting Adult Diabetes and Related Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: The Bogalusa Heart Study

Author(s) -

Quoc Manh Nguyen,

Gerald S. Berenson

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc10-0981

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , insulin resistance , glucose homeostasis , endocrinology , insulin , homeostasis

We thank d'Annunzio, Russo, and Lorini (1) for their interest in our article (2) related to carbohydrate-insulin variables in youth and later adult pre-diabetes and diabetes. As they noted, normal values of homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) are increased with sexual maturation. This is consistent with our previous findings in Bogalusa, Louisiana, with children. Svec et al. (3) reported earlier that there was a positive trend of postglucose …

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