8 out of 10 diabetics in their 30s also have obesity: study

“Over half of adults with diabetes in Korea have obesity, a recent study by local scholars showed on Friday, with cases particularly high among patients in their 30s and 40s. Some 81 percent of people with diabetes in their 30s and 76.4 percent of diabetics in their 40s were found to be obese, in the study led by Park Se-eun, a professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the Kangbuk Samsung Hospital. Overall, 52.4 percent of the patients with diabetes were obese. The study noted that the tendenc

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