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How are obesity and diabetes linked?
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How are obesity and diabetes linked?

Here, Mr Ahmed Bariatric Consultant discusses the link between obesity and diabetes.

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How are obesity and diabetes linked? So obesity and diabetes are intertwined and often we use the term now diabetes to refer to the combined conditions of obesity and diabetes. We know that patients who suffer from type 2 diabetes are more likely to carry excess weight and that's almost certainly because people with type 2 diabetes have high incident levels and incident and actually one of the functions is to cause fat deposit. On the other flip side of the coin, we also know that patients who have obesity are also at much higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. And that's through the actual effect of adipose or fat tissue on the pancreas and also on causing incident resistance around the body. So the two are really intertwined together and often go hand in hand.

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