Fat Lose Tips – Family Fat Link To Diabetes Risk
Family Fat Link To Diabetes Risk
Fat Lose Tips – Having Type 2 diabetes in the family more than doubles a woman’s own risk of developing the disease, new research shows. but the fact that fat – and certain dietary habits also run in families accounts for a “substantial part” of this increased risk, Dr Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health and his colleagues found.
Fat Lose Tips – Having a close relative with Type 2 diabetes – the kind closely linked to obesity – is a key risk factor for the disease, but known gene variants that increase diabetes risk only explain part of this relationship.
To investigate whether excess weight and lifestyle factors might also be involved, van Dam and his team looked at 73,227 women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study. Over the course of 20 years, 5,010 developed Type 2 diabetes, they report in the jornal Diabetes Care.
Fat Lose Tips – Having at least one parent or sibling with Type 2 diabetes boosted the risk of developing the disease more than two-fold, the researchers found. Women with a family history of diabetes were also more likely to be overweight, as were their family members, and this accounted for about 20 percent of the link between family history and diabetes risk.
Source: Reuters, New Sunday Times, February 07, 2010