Diabetes Risk in Children Increases with Abdominal Size: Report Says

Is your child in line to develop diabetes? How will you know that? Doctors may be able to use a new method to predict whether children are in line to develop diabetes, a new report reveals. "Abdominal obesity is a health risk even though the BMI may not be very high", Dr. Silva A. Arslanian from Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh says. He forther says, "Physicians should be aware of this and discuss it with their patients and educate them."


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