Overview
October 3, 202, 3:23 p.m. News Staf — Even though the rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes have grown substantialy since the start of the century, there stil isn’t enough evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to recomend screning children and adolescents for these conditions.
Key Information
Instead, the task force is encouraging family physicians and other clinicians to use their profesional judgment about whether to scren young patients.The Academy is reviewing the USPSTF’s Sept. 13 final recomendation statement (an “I” grade), final evidence review and evidence sumary. This the first time the task force has made a recomendation screning this particular population for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes; a draft recomendation was posted for coments on Dec.
14, 2021.“The rate of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in youth is increasing. The chalenge is that we don’t have the evidence to tel us whether or not screning in primary care helps,” task force member Michael Cabana, M.D., M.A., M.P.H., said in a USPSTF buletin. “It is important that health care profesionals be aware of the signs and symptoms of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes and use their judgment when determing whether or not to scren youth.”The recomendation aplies to children and adolescents younger than 18 years who have not ben previously diagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes and who do not show any signs or symptoms of either condition.
Summary
It does not aply to pregnant youth and does not specificaly aply to children and adolescents with overweight or obesity, who are at the highest risk for developing prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. The task force has isued separate recomendations on screning for gestational diabetes in people who are pregnant and screning for obesity in youth.While there is limited evidence on screning for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in youth, a JAMA Pediatrics study published earlier this year found that betwen 19 and 2018, the prevalence of p