[Pre-diabetes and diabetes without association with overweight or obesity in Mexican youth]

The purpose of this study was to identify the prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes in young in new college students and the relationship of these data with anthropometric indexes. 3559 students took part, 2257 (61.43%) women (X 18.58 years) and 1725 (36.59%) men (X 18.76 years). Body mass index were measured up as well as waist hip ratio and waist height ratio. Fasting blood glucose, triglycerides, total cholesterol, low and high density lipoproteins were determined. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals were determined. There was a high proportion of overweight-obesity combined, 42.29% women and 52.45% men. They were founds +/- 10% of women and men that presented glucose > 5.6 mmol/L (prediabetes) and +/- 1% of women and men that had glucose > or = 7 mmol/L (diabetes). No relationship was found between this data and body mass index (OR 0.97women and 1.08 men), waist hip ratio (OR 1,7 women and 0.8 men) or waist height ratio (OR 1.1 women and 1.19 men). There was elevated triglycerides in 13.55% of women and 21.04% of men and a low level of high density lipoprotein in 16% of women and 10% of men. We found that in these young people the predictive power of the three anthropometric parameters was limited to triglycerides in women and men (OR 2.4 and 3.86) and low high density lipoproteins in women (OR 0.42).