New European research has found that children with a higher body mass index (BMI) may have an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes in adulthood. | AFP
New European research has found that children with a higher body mass index may have an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes in adulthood.
Carried out by researchers at the University of Bristol, the new study looked at more than 450,000 people taking part in United Kingdom Biobank — a large-scale study which includes genomic information on more than half a million U.K. residents — and data from over 700,000 individuals taken from four large-scale genetic studies.
The findings, published by The BMJ today, showed that a larger BMI at age 10 is associated with a higher risk of coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes, although the increased risk was found to be most likely in the participants who also had a higher BMI in adulthood.
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