Location of fat determines diabetes risk in obesity
Published on September 21, 2012
By Sally Robertson, medwireNews Reporter
New tools are needed to discriminate risk for prediabetes and diabetes among obese individuals, suggest findings from a US study.
A study of obese individuals found that general measures of fatness such as body mass index (BMI) had no bearing on their risk for developing diabetes, whereas excess visceral fat and biomarkers of insulin resistance were strong predictors of diabetes risk.
"Body mass index really isn't the whole story," lead author Ian Neeland (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas) told medwireNews.
"If you look at two people who are obese, their risk for diabetes may be vastly different because underneath the surface, you don't know where the fat is stored."
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