Diabetology

Obesity and Diabetes Risk

It is well known that obesity and fat excess are factors predisposing to diabetes mellitus, but how can we quantify this association? A wide cohort trial has been used to monitor about 4,000 elderly (age ≥ 65) for a duration of averagely 12 years. During that period, 339 new cases of diabetes have been identified. Relating BMI with diabetes onset, it was seen that for subjects belonging to the higher quintile (in the division according to obesity), the risk to develop diabetes was 4 to 5 times higher than in subjects belonging to the lower quintile.
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