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03 Sep 2008
Obese people who have diabetes are just as likely as their slimmer counterparts to go undiagnosed, according to researchers.
Staff from Harvard Medical School in the USA, along with scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, state that "obesity does not increase the likelihood that an individual's diabetes will be diagnosed".
The researchers examined a total of 5,514 people who participated in the country's 1999 - 2004 national health and nutrition examination survey to determine the impact of a person's body mass index (BMI) on their risk of having undiagnosed diabetes.
Almost ten per cent of participants had the condition and 28 per cent of thesehad not been diagnosed with it.
Reuters notes: "A person's BMI made no difference from a statistical standpoint in whether or not they went undiagnosed; 22 per cent of normal weight people with diabetes were undiagnosed, 32 per cent of overweight people were and about 33 percent of obese people were."
Increased thirst and blurred vision are two signs that a person could have undiagnosed diabetes.
Click here to visit the Diabetes Quick Guide
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