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Obesity and Diabetes Risk

Scientists have been warning that diabetes will be the next medical crisis in this country. Now, a new study may give us a better warning of who its next victims will be, showing that diabetes, particularly Type 2 diabetes and obesity may be linked. For years, doctors have been weighing patients, and then determining their likelihood of developing type-2 diabetes. They did so by calculating their "body mass index" a ratio of their weight to their height.



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