{"id":45820,"date":"2014-07-30T23:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=80f0f1cd97b856571283e82a238a0e69"},"modified":"2014-07-30T23:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T23:15:04","slug":"news-story-adults-with-a-large-waist-are-5-times-more-likely-to-get-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45820","title":{"rendered":"News story: Adults with a large waist are 5 times more likely to get type 2 diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Public Health England (<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>) has today (31 July 2014) released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/adult-obesity-and-type-2-diabetes\">report<\/a> containing new analysis showing that men who have a large waist circumference of over 102cm (40.2 inches) are 5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Women with a large waist circumference of over 88cm (34.7 inches) are 3 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. <\/p>\n<p>Currently 90% of adults with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese and the prevalence of both obesity and diabetes are on the increase. At present 100 people each week in the UK have a limb amputated as a result of diabetes and diabetic eye disease is the main cause of preventable blindness in the working age population in England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes is a serious public health issue; by 2030 the total number of adults with all types of diabetes is projected to rise to 4.6million or 9.5% of the adult population. <\/p>\n<p>Being overweight or obese is the main avoidable risk factor for type 2 diabetes. Not all communities are affected in the same way; people from Black, South Asian and other minority ethnic groups tend to develop type 2 diabetes up to a decade earlier than white European populations, and develop it at a lower body mass index.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition deprivation is closely linked to the risk of both obesity and diabetes, with type 2 diabetes being 40% more common among people in the poorest communities compared with those in the richest. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Alison Tedstone, Chief Nutritionist at <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>, said;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Type 2 diabetes is a very serious public health issue which can have significant consequences, such as limb amputations or blindness. The key to reducing diabetes is losing weight which can be achieved through a healthy diet and being more active.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Please note:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/LiveWell\/Loseweight\/Pages\/Loseweighthome.aspx\">NHS Choices have a large amount of information on how to lose weight, which can be found from their website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/adult-obesity-and-type-2-diabetes\">Read the adult obesity and type 2 diabetes report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/falcifer\/\">Ben Watkin<\/a> Used under <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?text=measuring%20tape&amp;sort=relevance&amp;license=1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6\">Flickr Creative Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health England (PHE) encourages people to measure and monitor their waistline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}