Weight Gain May Be Healthy When It Comes To Type 1 Diabetes

Saturday, June 7, 2008 - 08:21 in Health & Medicine

Gaining body fat may be a good thing, at least for people with type 1 diabetes. The new study followed 655 patients with type 1 diabetes for 20 years and found patients whose body mass index increased the most were one-third less likely to die than those who had decreases or smaller increases in BMI.

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