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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It's well known that being fat can be a fast track to diabetes and heart disease.
But now Sydney doctors say some obese folk are less at risk from the two potentially deadly illnesses than others - and they've launched a new study to find out why.
Experts at the Garvan Institute, the medical research facility at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, say there are "healthy obese people" whose insulin works just as well as in someone who is lean.
These same people also appear to be less at risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8411834
But now Sydney doctors say some obese folk are less at risk from the two potentially deadly illnesses than others - and they've launched a new study to find out why.
Experts at the Garvan Institute, the medical research facility at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, say there are "healthy obese people" whose insulin works just as well as in someone who is lean.
These same people also appear to be less at risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8411834