RF28 | PSUN302 Obesity at Late Adolescence and Incident Type 1 Diabetes in Young Adulthood

Studies in children reported an association between increased body mass index (BMI) and risk for developing type 1 diabetes (T1D), but evidence in late adolescence is limited. We recently investigated the association between adolescent BMI and type 2 diabetes in young adulthood (Diabetes Care 2020, 43(7): 1487-95) and here we studied on the same cohort the association between late adolescent BMI and incident T1D.

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