Large waist size linked to higher diabetes rates among Americans compared to English

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

Providing more evidence about the risks of having a fat midsection, an international research team has found that a higher rate of diabetes seen among adult Americans when compared to peers in England is explained primarily by a larger waist size rather than conventional risk factors such as obesity.

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