New type 2 diabetes study results reported from University of California

Researchers in the United States conducted a study "To identify differences in amount and distribution of fat and lean soft tissue in a cross-sectional study of subjects with and without type 2 diabetes and to determine whether any differences are affected by race/ethnicity or sex. Overweight and obese (body mass index, BMI >= 25 kg m(-2)) Black, White and Hispanic men (490) and women (825) with type 2 diabetes ((mean +/- s.d.) age 58.5 +/- 6.6; BMI 35.3 +/- 5.3) who had a baseline dual energy X-ray absorptiometry whole-body scan at the time of enrollment in the Look AHEAD clinical trial, and 242 healthy controls, 91 males and 151 females (age 55.3 +/- 8.6 years, BMI 30.7 +/- 4.2 kg...

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