Health and Fitness

Low Birth Weight Combined with Unhealthy Adult Lifestyle May Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

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Boston, MA —(ENEWSPF)–July 23, 2015.  People who are a low weight at birth and have unhealthy habits as adults, such as eating nutritionally poor diets or smoking, may have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people born at an average weight who live similar lifestyles, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In the first study to comprehensively assess how…

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