Language: English
Welcome to EPG Patient Direct
The healthcare portal for patients and the general public in Europe
- Conditions and illnesses
- Managing your health
- Lifestyle advice
- Treatment choices
More News Health News
- Patients with diabetes experience slowdown of thought processes
Published Monday 05 January 2009 - Obese post-menopausal women at greater risk of ovarian cancer
Published Monday 05 January 2009 - Study looks at the costs associated with sleep disorders
Published Friday 02 January 2009 - Expert advises on a healthy diet for a healthy pocket
Published Wednesday 31 December 2008
Your Vote
Find Out More About
This service contains links to third party websites. EPG Patient Direct is not in a position to verify this information and cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of the content contained.
More NewsEPG Patient Direct News
Click here to visit the Diabetes Quick Guide
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
Delicious
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Related News Stories (Diabetes)
- Patients with diabetes experience slowdown of thought processes 05/01/09
- Specialist calls for more anti-obesity programmes 17/12/08
- Celiac link with type 1 diabetes discovered 11/12/08
- Study finds possible cause for pancreatic cell dysfunction 10/12/08
- Mouse model could aid understanding of neonatal diabetes 10/12/08
- Expert advises diabetes is threat to all shapes and sizes 04/12/08
- Diabetic gene variation could affect CAD risk, says study 26/11/08
- New source of insulin-producing cells identified 25/11/08