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. 2015 Apr;166(4):1085-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.12.011. Epub 2015 Jan 13.

Childhood wrist circumference is not a predictor of insulin resistance in adulthood

Ashley N Watkins  1 , Aaron S Kelly  2 , Ronald J Prineas  3 , Kara L Marlatt  1 , Donald R Dengel  1 , Alan R Sinaiko  4 , Antoinette Moran  4 , Julia Steinberger  5
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Childhood wrist circumference is not a predictor of insulin resistance in adulthood

Ashley N Watkins et al. J Pediatr. 2015 Apr.

Abstract

We sought to determine whether childhood wrist circumference predicts insulin resistance in adulthood. Measures were taken in prepubertal children and then approximately 30 years later in the same subjects as adults. Our findings suggest that wrist circumference in childhood is not a predictor of insulin resistance in adulthood.

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Figure 1
Correlation of child WrC and adult insulin resistance as measured by A, log HOMA-IR (ρ=0.082, P=0.177; higher log HOMA-IR indicates greater insulin resistance), and B, Mlbm (ρ=-0.118, P=0.051; lower Mlbm indicates greater insulin resistance). A jitter of 4 was applied to avoid point overlap.
Figure 1
Figure 1
Correlation of child WrC and adult insulin resistance as measured by A, log HOMA-IR (ρ=0.082, P=0.177; higher log HOMA-IR indicates greater insulin resistance), and B, Mlbm (ρ=-0.118, P=0.051; lower Mlbm indicates greater insulin resistance). A jitter of 4 was applied to avoid point overlap.
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