Sunday, September 03, 2006

Exercise cuts diabetes risk in people with big waists

Exercise cuts diabetes risk in people with big waists.
Read the on BruDirect.com.

New York - Exercise can help people with large waistlines reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Finnish researchers said on Friday.
Type 2 diabetes, the more common form of the illness caused by an inability to make or properly use insulin, is linked to being overweight or obese.
But scientists from the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki found that people with large waistlines who exercise were less likely to suffer from type 2 diabetes than their less active counterparts.

"People who were obese were more likely to be diagnosed with glucose intolerance and type 2 diabetes but if they were physically active their risk was significantly lower," said Katja Borodulin, who headed the study.

Glucose intolerance is an early indication that glucose is not being processed efficiently in the body.

"The novelty value of our study is that we used waist-to-hip ratio which is a measure of abdominal obesity and not body mass index (BMI) which was used in previous studies," she added in an interview.

Diabetes affects about 194 million people worldwide. Experts say the number could rise to 333 million by 2025. The illness also increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney damage and nerve disorders that can lead to foot ulceration and amputations.

Borodulin and her team studied the impact of exercise on 1,812 normal and overweight people in the study published in the journal Diabetic Medicine. They found that physically inactive people with large waistlines had a 5.5 times greater risk of suffering from diabetes than active people with small waists.

They added that 30 minutes of exercise five times a week could help people with large waists lower their odds of suffering the illness by 4.2 times.
A large waistline, high blood pressure, raised insulin levels, excess body weight and abnormal cholesterol levels are a cluster of signs of metabolic syndrome. If someone has three or more symptoms they have the syndrome and are at a higher risk of suffering from heart disease and stroke as well as diabetes.

Simon O'Neill, of the charity Diabetes UK, said the research showed that exercise reduces the risk of developing diabetes regardless of a person's waist size.
"Your waist should measure less than 31.5 inches for women, 37 inches for white and black men, and 35 inches

for South Asian men. This can be achieved through a healthy diet, alongside regular physical activity," he said in a statement. -- Reuters Limited

紐約讯:- 在星期五鍛煉罐頭幫助人與大腰圍減少開發型他們的風險2 糖尿病, 芬蘭研究員說。 型2 糖尿病, 病症的更加共同的形式由無能造成做或適當地使用胰島素, 與連接超重或肥胖。 但科學家從全國公共衛生學院在赫爾辛基發現人與行使的大腰圍比他們的較不活躍相對物是較不可能遭受型2 糖尿病。 "肥胖是可能被診斷以葡萄糖不寬容和型2 糖尿病的人們但如果他們是完全活躍的他們的風險是顯著更低," Borodulin 說Katja, 朝向研究。 葡萄糖不寬容是一個早期徵兆, 葡萄糖高效率地不被處理在身體。

"我們的研究的新奇價值是, 我們使用了是胃腸肥胖病措施並且不是被使用在早先研究的身體許多索引的腰部對臀部比率(BMI)," 她增加了在採訪。 糖尿病影響大約194 百萬人民全世界。專家說數字能上升到333 百萬在2025 年以前。病症並且增加可能導致腳潰瘍和截肢術心臟病、衝程、盲目性、腎臟損傷和神經混亂的風險。 Borodulin 和她的隊學習了鍛煉對1,812 正常和超重人的衝擊在研究中被出版在學報糖尿病患者醫學。他們發現完全不活潑的人與大腰圍有一種5.5 次更加巨大的風險遭受糖尿病比活躍人與小腰部。

他們補充說, 30 分鐘鍛煉五次每星期能幫助人與大腰部低遭受病症他們的可能性在4.2 次以前。 大腰圍、高血壓、被提高的胰島素水平、剩餘體重和反常膽固醇是新陳代謝的綜合症狀的標誌群。如果某人有三種或更多症狀他們有綜合症狀和是在遭受心臟病和衝程更高的風險並且糖尿病。 西蒙・奧尼恩斯, 慈善糖尿病英國, 說研究表示, 鍛煉減少開發糖尿病風險不管人的腰部大小。

"您的腰部應該測量少於31.5 英寸為婦女, 37 英寸為白和黑人, 和35 英寸 為南亞裔人。這可能達到通過健康飲食, 沿著規則體育活動, "他說在聲明。-- 路透社

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