Overweight young people can avoid diabetes risk if they lose weight early enough, says new research

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 13:22 in Health & Medicine

Obese young people can still turn their chances of developing life threatening illness around if they change before middle age, says new research. The study looked at the body mass index (BMI) of people when they were young and compared it to when they were middle aged to see whether it affected their risk of heart attack, stroke or diabetes.

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