Obesity has outlasted one more issue–it has been reported that obesity plays a major role in causing type 2 diabetes in women, although obesity and lack of physical activity are deemed as the main reasons of the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. The results of the research are reported in in the journal Diabetes Care.

Dr. Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and his colleagues are the team that conducted the research. The team noted that the relative contribution of obesity and inactivity to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes was not very comprehensively clear; and therefore, to investigate further into this matter, they monitored 68,907 women taking part in the Nurses’ Health Study. We can easily guess that it is quite a big study, and the results of this study should give some clear indications to the problems being monitored. It was noticed that the women in the current trial had no history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer at the time when they entered into the study. During the 16 years of follow-up of these women, 4,030 cases of type 2 diabetes were reported. It was noticed that after allowing for age, smoking, and other diabetes-associated factors, the risk of type 2 diabetes increased more with increasing body mass index–BMI. This is a clear indication that obesity can lead to the risks of type 2 diabetes. Though inactivity also enhanced the risks of type 2 diabetes, but obesity was the major reason.

It has been already pointed out that the risk of type 2 diabetes is more in obese children, and they also are more prone to cardiovascular and other heart related diseases. This is quite clear now that obesity can prove to be the one main cause of many problems that people face so often.