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Type 2 diabetes screening recommended for men with overweight wives

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New research has revealed that men are at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes if their wives are obese, but women living with overweight men don't face the same risks. The researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark have called for men aged 50 or older who live with obese women to be screened for type 2 diabetes. Dr Adam Hulman, who led the research, said: "This is the first study investigating the sex-specific effect of spousal obesity on diabetes risk. "Recognising shared risk between spouses may improve diabetes detection and motivate couples to increase collaborative efforts to eat more healthily and boost their activity levels." The study team examined a total of 3,650 men and 3,478 women aged 50 or older, with participants interviewed every two and a half years over a 17-year period between 1998 and 2015. The new rate of diagnoses for type 2 diabetes was 12.6 per 1,000 people per year among men and 8.6 per cent among women. Additionally, those aged 55 or over who had a partner with type 2 diabetes were more likely to be obese compared to those with partners without diabetes. In a further study, men who shared their wives' lack of exercise and bad eating habits were found to be 21 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, but the scientists were left baffled as to why the results didn't apply the other way round. "Having an obese wife increases a man's risk of diabetes over and above the effect of his own obesity level, while among women, having an obese husband gives no additional diabetes risk beyond that of her own obesity level," added Hulman. "Our results indicate that on finding obesity in a person, screening of their partner for diabetes may be justified. In particular, men whose wives are obese may benefit from being followed more closely." The research was presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Eating a healthy diet and getting regular exercise to help prevent the onset of obesity and type 2 diabetes, and even put type 2 diabetes into remission. For easy to follow guidance on healthy eating visit the Low Carb Program.

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OMG - I thought they were going to conclude that obesity is catching!!! :D

But I do wonder if they included obese men who did all the shopping and cooking in their actual studies, too - they might be a possible cause of obesity and diabetes in women...

Robbity
 
Given that I am normal on the BMI scale, and do the shopping/cooking, but my husband is overweight. Can I blame him for my t1 diagnosis? :angelic::angelic:
 
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