Wednesday, 1 July 2015

For Type 2 Diabetes, Where You Live Matters | Medpage Today

For Type 2 Diabetes, Where You Live Matters | Medpage Today



"Living in a neighborhood with resources to support exercise and with access to healthy food was associated with a lower incidence of type 2 diabetes, found a new prospective, longitudinal study.
Researchers found that 12% of the more than 5,000 people in the study developed diabetes within the average 8.9 years of follow-up. But patients who lived in areas that had access to more physical activity resources had a lower risk (hazard ratio 0.79, 95% CI 0.71-0.88), as did those who had access to healthy foods (HR 0.88, 95% CI 0.79-0.98), of developing diabetes."

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