1. Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in a Sixth- Grade Multiracial Cohort The HEALTHY study
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Kaufman, Francine R, Hirst, Kathryn, Linder, Barbara, Baranowski, Tom, Cooper, Dan M, Foster, Gary D, Goldberg, Linn, Harrell, Joanne S, Marcus, Marsha D, and Treviño, Roberto P
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Pediatric ,Clinical Research ,Diabetes ,Obesity ,Nutrition ,Prevention ,Metabolic and endocrine ,Adolescent ,Black People ,Blood Glucose ,Body Mass Index ,Child ,Cohort Studies ,Diabetes Mellitus ,Type 2 ,Fasting ,Female ,Humans ,Insulin ,Male ,Nuclear Family ,Overweight ,Puberty ,Racial Groups ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,Risk Factors ,United States ,White People ,HEALTHY Study Group - Abstract
ObjectiveHEALTHY is a 3-year middle school intervention program designed to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes risk factors at baseline in a cohort of 6,358 sixth-grade students is reported.Research design and methodsForty-two schools at seven U.S. sites were randomly assigned to intervention or control. Students participated in baseline data collection during fall of 2006.ResultsOverall, 49.3% of children had BMI >or=85th percentile, 16.0% had fasting blood glucose >or=100 mg/dl (or=126 mg/dl), and 6.8% had fasting insulin >or=30 microU/ml. Hispanic youth were more likely to have BMI, glucose, and insulin levels above these thresholds than blacks and whites.ConclusionsSixth-grade students in schools with large minority populations have high levels of risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The HEALTHY intervention was designed to modify these risk factors to reduce diabetes incidence.
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- 2009