Obese diabetics live longer than thin

[no kudzu]

Diabetes Obesity Paradox- but this depends on your size at time of diagnosis

Why Being Thin with Diabetes Is a Dangerous Combo: The Obesity Paradox | Healthland | TIME.com

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by no kudzu

Diabetes Obesity Paradox- but this depends on your size at time of diagnosis

Why Being Thin with Diabetes Is a Dangerous Combo: The Obesity Paradox | Healthland | TIME.com

Interesting article, but I think the title is a bit misleading.

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But, says study author Mercedes Carnethon, associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, that doesn’t necessarily mean that gaining excess weight is a healthy strategy; rather, it may be that people who are thin when they develop diabetes are already be vulnerable to worse health. “We hypothesized that their diabetes may be different,” she says. “They may have developed diabetes for reasons unrelated to obesity.[LEFT]
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This seems to say it all.

[jambo101]

I think the inference was a mildly overweight active and otherwise healthy diabetic is more healthy than a skinny diabetic couch potato.