Having excess body fat and poor muscle health - the physical condition of 30 million American adults - makes a person 3.5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a longterm study revealed Tuesday.
Researchers, led by Australia’s Curtin University, examined the health of 480,000 adults over the course of 14 years and found those who were obese had muscle loss were 19 percent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than people who were only obese and 91 percent more likely to develop type 2 than people with only low muscle mass.
