{"id":1042860,"date":"2012-06-10T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T15:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/waist-circumference-associated-with-type-2-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:00:29","slug":"waist-circumference-associated-with-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/waist-circumference-associated-with-type-2-diabetes.php","title":{"rendered":"Waist Circumference Associated With Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a study that points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2008\/03\/lose-the-visceral-fat.php\">amount of visceral fat as a dominant contribution<\/a> to the risk of age-related <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Type_2_diabetes_mellitus\">type-2 diabetes<\/a> - a condition rarely suffered by people who successfully avoid putting on weight over the years - something that doesn't just happen, but requires exercise and a sensible approach to diet and lifestyle. \"A collaborative re-analysis of data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inter-act.eu\/project\/general-summary-aim.html\">InterAct case-control study<\/a> [has] established that waist circumference is associated with risk of type 2 diabetes, independently of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Body_mass_index\">body mass index (BMI)<\/a>. Reporting in <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pmed.1001230\">this week's PLoS Medicine<\/a>, the researchers estimated the association of BMI and waist circumference with type 2 diabetes from measurements of weight, height and waist circumference, finding that both BMI and waist circumference were independently associated with type 2 diabetes risk but waist circumference was a stronger risk factor in women than in men. ... The prospective InterAct case-cohort study was conducted in 26 centres in eight European countries and consists of 12,403 incident [type 2 diabetes] cases and a stratified subcohort of 16,154 individuals from a total cohort of 340,234 participants with 3.99 million person-years of follow-up. ... These findings indicate that targeted measurement of waist circumference in overweight individuals (who now account for a third of the US and UK adult population) could be an effective strategy for the prevention of diabetes because it would allow the identification of a high-risk subgroup of people who might benefit from individualised lifestyle advice. ... Our results clearly show the value that measurement of [waist circumference] may have in identifying which people among the large population of overweight individuals are at highest risk of diabetes.\" A risk that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/reversing-type-2-diabetes.php\">essentially yours to create, remove, or manage<\/a> through the choices you make.<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-06\/plos-wcl053112.php\">http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-06\/plos-wcl053112.php<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm\">http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a study that points to amount of visceral fat as a dominant contribution to the risk of age-related type-2 diabetes - a condition rarely suffered by people who successfully avoid putting on weight over the years - something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/waist-circumference-associated-with-type-2-diabetes.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}