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To the Editor.—
We read with great interest the article by Williams et al,1 which revealed a very high prevalence (7%) of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) among US adolescents (data were from the 1999–2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey). Moreover, patients with IFG had features of insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk factors. Among overweight subjects, the prevalence of IFG raised to 17.8%.
Quite surprisingly, our experience with obese adolescents is very different.
We …
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