Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have revealed that elderly men and women even with normal body weight are at the risk of type 2 diabetes if they have large amounts of muscle fat or visceral abdominal fat, according to Diabetes Care.
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is highest among men and women over the age of 65, but the prevalence of obesity in this group is only 14 per cent compared with 24 per cent for people in their 50s, according to Bret Goodpaster, principal investigator of the study. “It appears that in elderly individuals, there might be some disassociation between obesity and the risk for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes,” he said.
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