The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has generated the most complete epidemiological dataset for research on diabetes and prediabetes in young people. This dataset was derived from substantial data collected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) between the years 1999 and 2018. The dataset, which was made public through the recently introduced Prediabetes/diabetes in youth ONline Dashboard (POND), is intended to spark a new wave of study into the growing problem of diabetes among young people. A DOI of 10.2196/53330 was assigned to the article that was published in the journal JMIR Public Health and Surveillance.
The newly gathered dataset incorporates information on 15,149 young people living in the United States who are between the ages of 12 and 19. The data covers a wide range of factors, including sociodemographic backgrounds, health statuses, dietary habits, and other lifestyle behaviours that are important to prediabetes and diabetes (preDM/DM). In order to facilitate a better understanding of the factors that may influence the risk of diabetes in young people, the POND portal extends an invitation to researchers, health care providers, and the general public to investigate these data.
“By providing a detailed view of the risk factors and trends associated with prediabetes and diabetes in our youth, this dataset empowers clinicians and researchers to develop more effective interventions tailored to the needs of this vulnerable population,” said Nita Vangeepuram, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Population Health Science and Policy, and Environmental Medicine and Climate Science at Icahn Mount Sinai, and clinical expert on the research team. Vangeepuram is also in charge of the research team.
