Experts of the British society Diabetes UK commented on the fact that the presence of excess weight in the area of the waist indicates the accumulation of fat around internal organs and therefore increased likelihood of developing diabetes.
“Owners of wide waist with a total weight high body fat is concentrated around the liver and pancreas. It can cause insulin resistance, because insulin cannot penetrate through the fat,” the researchers reported.
According to them, obesity is a major factor in the occurrence of type 2 diabetes: excess body fat interferes with the correct operation of insulin, thereby contributing to increased concentrations of glucose in the blood. But not everyone knows that even if weight and body mass index in normal, wide waist still points to the increased likelihood of diabetes.
“The waist measurement is a simple and effective way to find out if you are at risk of type II diabetes”, – said the representatives of Diabetes UK.
How to understand, wide waist or not? The specialists are: a measure of health is waist circumference less than 31.5 inches (80 cm) in women and less than 37 inches (94 cm) in men.
Note that the study conducted by researchers from the International center at the heart Institute and hospital of the Johns Hopkins University in the US suggests that excessive fat accumulation in the waist is correlated with a high risk of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by high blood pressure, high blood sugar and blood cholesterol, and coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias and left ventricular dysfunction. The authors argue that waist circumference is associated with risk of heart disease even more than body weight.
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