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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Older obese people with type 2 diabetes appear to have a lower death rate than younger people who have diabetes and weigh less, a new study finds.
This so-called "obesity paradox" might mean obesity is actually protective, or type 2 diabetes in older people is somehow different than it is in younger people, the researchers speculate.
Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, who did not take part in the study, said that "my feeling is that fat is not protective, but the ones who are dying have more bad fat and more aggressive diabetes."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/could-obesity-help-older-people-with-type-2-diabetes-1.6141330
This so-called "obesity paradox" might mean obesity is actually protective, or type 2 diabetes in older people is somehow different than it is in younger people, the researchers speculate.
Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, who did not take part in the study, said that "my feeling is that fat is not protective, but the ones who are dying have more bad fat and more aggressive diabetes."
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/could-obesity-help-older-people-with-type-2-diabetes-1.6141330