Higher incidence of morbidity in obese children in Sweden than in Germany
More than one in six children in Sweden who are obese also have pre-diabetes. This has been demonstrated in a large study of more than 35,000 children from Sweden and Germany conducted at Karolinska Institutet and published in the scientific periodical International Journal of Obesity. The study, which is based on a collaboration between the national childhood obesity registry in Sweden, BORIS, and its German counterpart, APV, reveals that the incidence of pre-diabetes is three times higher in children in Sweden than in Germany.Elevated fasting blood glucose is a pre-diabetic condition in