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Predicting adult-onset diabetes - 2/13/2003
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Fat cells may hold the key to predicting type 2 diabetes, a major cause of
kidney failure, limb amputations, blindness, heart disease and stroke.
The disease, also called adult-onset diabetes, affects 8 percent of
the U.S. population age 20 or older. While more than 80 percent of
diabetics are overweight, only 10 percent of obese individuals develop
the disease. Knowing your risk is a key to prevention.
Knowing what to expect: "Currently, we have no markers to tell who
among these overweight individuals is going to become diabetic," says Alan Attie,
a College biochemist who studies diabetes. A major study in 2001 showed
that people at risk for diabetes can delay the onset of the disease
with moderate changes in diet and exercise, according to Attie.
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