Role of Body Weight in the Risk for Diabetes

Diabetes Insight
Volume 5, Issue 17

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Role of Body Weight in the Risk for Diabetes

Interview with:

Samia Mora, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Effect of body weight on diabetes

All three components of the adiposity triad — body mass index (BMI), central adiposity (ie, waist circumference), and weight gain (ie, trajectory of adiposity since early adulthood) — are associated with increased risk for diabetes.

The...