Obesity Type 2 Diabetes Risk
How does obesity cause type 2 diabetes.
Obesity type 2 diabetes risk. Obesity is a well known risk factor for type 2 diabetes he said. Obesity increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by at least 6 times regardless of genetic predisposition to the disease concludes research published in diabetologia the journal of the. Conditions related to obesity are increasingly common such as metabolic syndrome impaired fasting glucose ifg and impaired glucose tolerance igt all of which indicate high risk for type 2 diabetes t2dm. Excess weight is an established risk factor for type 2 diabetes yet most obese individuals do not develop type 2 diabetes.
Eckel said the findings are yet more evidence highlighting how important it is to prevent obesity to begin with. Genetic variants only explain about 10 to 15 of type 2 diabetes risk although i think we may not completely understand all of the type 2 genes he noted.