Obesity, physical activity and prediabetes in adult children of people with diabetes.
Lidia G Compeán-Ortiz, Laura Elena Trujillo-Olivera, Ana María Valles-Medina and 3 others
PMID 29319746WHAT IT FOUND
Among adult children of people with diabetes, obesity was common: 64% by BMI and 73.6% by waist circumference.
Fasting glucose showed 19% prediabetes and 6% strongly suspected diabetes. Physical activity was low in 32.1%, moderate in 32.1%, and intense in 35.8%.
Key findings
0164% were overweight/obese by BMI, and 73.6% had abdominal obesity by waist circumference.
0219% had prediabetes-range fasting glucose and 6% were strongly suspected of diabetes.
03Physical activity was low in 32.1%, moderate in 32.1%, and intense in 35.8%.
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What it does not show
Convenience sample of 30 families and 53 adult children from one health center, so the authors say the findings cannot be generalised. Cross-sectional design, so it cannot show that obesity, low activity, or family type caused prediabetes. The study measured prevalence and correlations; it did not test whether education, referral, or exercise changed outcomes. Participants were limited to adult children who lived in the same city and were not pregnant, so other family members were not represented.
Declared interests
Funded by Programa al Mejoramiento del Profesorado (PRODEP), Mexico, register PROMEP/103.5/12/4839. The supplied text reports no other conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the 64% obesity, 19% prediabetes, and 6% suspected diabetes figures as proof that adult children of people with diabetes will develop diabetes, or as results that apply to all such families. This was a convenience sample of 53 adult children from 30 families in one Mexican health center, and the study measured associations at one time.