Background:
During an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), morphological features of the glucose curve (monophasic curve, glucose peak >30mins and 1-hr glucose ≥155mg/dL) maybe associated with higher prediabetes risk, but their reproducibility and predictive ability in adolescents with obesity are unknown.
Design/Methods:
Nondiabetic adolescent girls with obesity underwent a multiple-sample OGTT at baseline (n=93), 6-weeks (n=83), and 1-year (n=72). Short-term reproducibility (baseline to 6-weeks) and the predictive ability for prediabetes (baseline to 1-year) for each feature were compared to standard fasting and 2-hr OGTT diagnostic criteria.
Results:
There was fair/moderate short-term reproducibility (κ<0.5) for all morphological features. At 1-year, compared to standard OGTT criteria, the ROC-AUCs for glucose peak >30 mins, 1-hr ≥155mg/dL or a combination of the 2 criteria were comparable (all P>0.05), but the monophasic curve had the lowest ROC-AUC (P<0.001).
Conclusion:
In adolescent girls with obesity, glucose peak > glucose ≥155mg/dL had similar reproducibility and 1-year predictive ability for prediabetes compared to standard OGTT criteria. The shortened 1-hr OGTT may provide diagnostic equivalence for prediabetes risk with the additional advantage of a less time-consuming risk assessment.