Pudgy Paradox: Some Extra Weight Decreases Mortality From Type 2 Diabetes
Saturday, May 9, 2015 - 02:00
in Health & Medicine
Patients with type 2 diabetes who are overweight - but not obese - live longer than those who are normal weight or thin. Obesity is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Studies show that overweight patients with cardiovascular disease live longer than normal-weight patients with cardiovascular disease. This is called the obesity paradox. To determine if the same could be true about patients with diabetes, researchers followed more than 10,500 patients with type 2 diabetes and no known cardiovascular disease for a median of 10.6 years and collected information about cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. read more