Too Sweet! Rates of Prediabetes in US Adolescents and Young Adults - Frankly Speaking EP 161Guest: Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-BC
Music Credit: Richard Onorato

The incidence and prevalence of prediabetes and Type II Diabetes Mellitus in adolescents and young adults has increased over the past decade. A recent cross-sectional study of 12 years of NHANES data suggests that this population has an associated increased cardiometabolic risk. Listen as our team discusses these findings and some prevention strategies to help improve health outcomes.

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Release Date: 2/24/2020

Expiration Date: 2/24/2021

Topics

Diabetes

Learning Objectives

Discuss the various prediabetes phenotypes and their relationship to development of Type II Diabetes Mellitus
Identify increasing incidence and prevalence of prediabetes in adolescents and young adults and the implications on health outcomes
Develop prevention strategies to reduce these trends in the primary care setting

Faculty

Frank J. Domino, MD

Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

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Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Family Nurse Practitioner Track
UMMS GSN

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