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Almost 1-in-3 American adolescents has diabetes or prediabetes, with waist-to-height ratio the strongest independent predictor of prediabetes/diabetes, reveals survey of 1,998 adolescents (10-19 years) from 2021-2023

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Prevalence and predictors of prediabetes/type 2 diabetes mellitus among adolescents in the United States: NHANES (2021–2023)

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Nearly 1-in-3 American adolescents has prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.

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Credit: Eric Peprah Osei, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Almost 1-in-3 American adolescents has diabetes or prediabetes, with waist-to-height ratio the strongest independent predictor of prediabetes/diabetes, reveals survey of 1,998 adolescents (10-19 years) from 2021-2023

Article URL: https://plos.io/3MEkobs

Article title: Prevalence and predictors of prediabetes/type 2 diabetes mellitus among adolescents in the United States: NHANES (2021–2023)

Author countries: U.S., Ghana.

Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.

Journal

PLOS Global Public Health

DOI

10.1371/journal.pgph.0005596

Article Title

Prevalence and predictors of prediabetes/type 2 diabetes mellitus among adolescents in the United States: NHANES (2021–2023)

Article Publication Date

25-Feb-2026

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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