Weight predicts diabetes
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, has studied more than 37000 women. They analyzed the participants height, weight, and level of physical activity.
Researchers have discovered two weight and the level of physical activity were significant predictors of type 2 diabetes. However, they say being overweight is a stronger predictor.
Results of the study show overweight women were about three times more likely to develop diabetes, and obese women were more than nine times the risk of developing the disease. Women who reported having been the most active were between 9 percent and 18 percent less likely to develop diabetes compared to those who were least active.
Study authors write, "We have seen a slight reduction in the risk of diabetes with increasing physical activity level, compared with a significant increase in the risk with increasing BMI [body mass index ]. Our study suggests that to further reduce the risk of diabetes with physical activity, it should be performed in conjunction with achieving weight loss. "
In an accompanying editorial, Steven N. Blair, PED, and Tim S. Church, MD, of the Cooper Institute in Dallas, write, "In essence, physical activity is the common denominator for the clinical treatment of insufficient fitness and being overweight," De la remise shaped vs fatness "debate largely academic. way, physicians, researchers and policymakers should spend less energy debating the importance of health related fitness and obesity and more time to focus on how to get sedentary individuals to become active."