Health Factors Tied to Youth-Onset Prediabetes

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57% : The findings suggest that screening for social determinants of health -- the non-medical factors that influence a person's health and risk of disease -- may help identify youth at risk of prediabetes, which could ultimately improve early interventions that prevent progression to type 2 diabetes.
54% : "This study underscores the importance of using social factors, which are modifiable -- meaning that we can address them -- to understand and reduce diabetes risk in adolescents as opposed to personal, non-modifiable characteristics like race and ethnicity," said senior author Mary Ellen Vajravelu, M.D., M.S.H.P., assistant professor of pediatrics at Pitt and pediatric endocrinologist at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
51% : Food insecurity, low household income and not having private health insurance are associated with higher rates of prediabetes in adolescents, independent of race and ethnicity, according to a new JAMA Network Open study by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers.

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