Minority Youth With T1D May Be At A Higher Risk Of Increasing Blood Glucose Levels Compared With Whites

reported, “Minority youth with type 1 diabetes were at higher risk of increasing blood glucose levels compared with whites,” researchers concluded after analyzing “a sample of 1,313 newly diagnosed individuals from the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth study.” The findings were published in JAMA Network Open. The author of an accompanying editorial wrote, however, that “when interpreting these findings, it’s important to keep in mind that there is ‘now clear evidence that on average black patients have a higher HbA1c level than white patients for the same mean glucose concentration...[at a] magnitude of 0.4%.’” https://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/type1diabetes/74982