Obesity Risks
The study suggests there is a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes by at least 6 times.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200415185837.htm
Studies into Diabetes Genes
In the largest non-European diabetes genetics study to date that involved 433,540 East Asian individuals from China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and USA, an international team of 113 investigators co-led by five senior authors.
URL: https://www.aedaily.net/en-gb/posts/largest-east-asian-genetic-study-reveals-novel-diabetes-genes/
Diabetes Cost Evidence Grows
Type 2 Hidden Illnesses
Further evidence of the costs, human and financial, comes from a study into the hidden illnesses of people with diabetes. According to the conclusions of Manchester University research, millions of people are at risk as over three quarters of people with Type 2 diabetes suffer hidden illnesses like schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.
Higher Mortality
The higher mortality associated with poorly controlled type 1 and type 2 diabetes could produce a loss of 6 million life years in the UK, according to a study by Manchester data scientists. A Medical Xpress study calculated the loss in life years from early mortality of a diabetes diagnoses. The team behind it also estimated that Type 1 and type 2 Diabetes patients with poor blood glucose control of greater than 58mmol/mol will lose around 100 life days.
Lifetime costs of diabetes. In a separate piece of work researchers in the US have modelled the lifetime costs associated with complications of type 2 diabetes.
https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/25/3/476
Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Another clinical trial found that significant weight loss could reverse type 2 diabetes in more than 60% of intervention participants.