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STOCKHOLM – According to a Swedish study, a teenager's weight gain at puberty could increase the risk of diabetes decades later.
The researchers studied measurements of body mass index in 36,176 men aged 8 years to 20 years. They then tracked the medical records of these men from the age of 30 for nearly three decades. During this period, 1,777 men were diagnosed with diabetes.
Overweight men in their childhood and not in adulthood were no more likely to develop diabetes when they were older than their peers who had a healthy weight during their childhood.
However, men who gained weight in adulthood were four times more likely to develop diabetes before the age of 55 and twice as likely to develop the disease after that age than men with a healthy weight.
According to the World Health Organization, one in five children and one in five teenagers suffer from obesity or overweight.
Children and adolescents are obese when BMI, the weight / height ratio, is greater than 95% of other young people of the same age and sex. They are considered overweight when the BMI ranges from 85 to 95%.
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