NEW ORLEANS — Adolescents’ risk for developing type 1 diabetes rose with increasing BMI, according to data presented at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions and simultaneously published in Diabetologia.
“There were previous reports on the association between obesity and type 1 diabetes in previous cohorts that included mostly children,” Gilad Twig, MD, PhD, a resident in the department of internal medicine at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, told Healio. “We were somewhat surprised to see that the association persisted in adolescents who