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Identifying adolescents with high fasting glucose: the importance of adding grandparents' data when assessing family history of diabetes.
Preventive medicine - 1 Nov 2013
Brandão Mariana, Lopes Carla, Ramos Elisabete
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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of adding grandparents' data to parental information to the assessment of a family history of diabetes, in order to identify adolescents with high fasting glucose. METHOD: In 2003 we evaluated 1276 population-based 13-year-olds, from Porto, Portugal. The history of diabetes in parents and grandparents was collected using self-reported questionnaires and a clinical evaluation was...
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