Did you know that your waisline is a good indicator of diabetes risk?A persons waist size is a stronger indicator of diabetes risk than the body-mass index (BMI), new research suggest John Hopkins scientists reviewed data from 27,270 men tracked over 13 years and put them into five groups according to their waist size, 884 of the men had diabetes!
As compared to those in the group with the smallest waists, 20-34 inches, men with large waist sizes were at least twice as likely to have diabetes.
Those with with the largest size, 40 inches and above, were up to 12 times more likely ot have Type 2 diabetes, the kind associated with obesity.
Yahoo Health News 3/21/05