Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is rapidly increasing within the paediatric community, prompting searches for a simple and effective screening tool. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) is the gold standard but is poorly accessible in the community. HbA1c offers an alternative which can be easily performed, but cut-offs for children have been extrapolated directly from the adult American Diabetes Association (ADA) diagnostic criter...