The risk of Type2 diabetes can increase if one is having a large waistline or is overweight.
But it can be more dangerous for an individual to have both the combination of large waistline as well as overweight including abdominal fat which depicts large waistline.
BMI is the standard mode to classify the weight of people into normal and overweight, whereas tape measurement can be best suited to measure abdominal weight.
Overweight women with less abdominal fat found to have low risk of developing diabetes as compared to those with high abdominal fat raising the size waistline, in turn leading to increase the risk of diabetes up to 10 times by considering the risk factors such as age, exercise habits and history of parents relating to diabetes.
Men with highest BMI found to have four times higher risk of developing diabetes as compared to normal men.
Now, people need to pay due attention towards their increasing weight, especially abdominal weight that can raise the risk of type2 diabetes. Mostly women are risked highly, so they need proper care of body by doing exercises and taking low-calorie diet to maintain ideal weight.
Via: reuters
