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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Overall, study authors concluded that high BMI was associated with an increased risk of incident T1D and that, “these results provide real world evidence for the deleterious contribution of obesity to the development of type 1 diabetes.”
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High BMI associated with increased risk of type 1 diabetes, meta-analysis suggests
In a systematic and meta-analysis review of cohort studies that featured nearly 1.7 million individuals, study authors concluded that there is an association between high body mass index (BMI) and an increased risk of incident type 1 diabetes (T1D).