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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

12 Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Lipid Metabolism

Type 2 diabetes: Important for clinical practice

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12.1 Change in Overweight from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

LG Bjerregaard , BW Jensen , L Angquist , M Osler , TIA Sorensen , JL Baker

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med 2018;378:1302-1312.While it is well known that being overweight in childhood and early adulthood is linked to a higher risk of T2DM later in life, the question arises as to whether diabetes risk would change if overweight children lose weight. This large-scale longitudinal study demonstrated that men who had remission of overweight between ages 7 and 13 yea...