Okay, I’ve seen a lot of new studies on type 2 diabetes, but this one is a little ‘brazere’ bizarre!
"Diabetes is linked to breast size," reads the headline in The Sun. The story goes on to report that "women who wear a large bra size are much more likely to develop diabetes than women with an A cup". Type 2 diabetes is often linked to lifestyle factors, such as obesity and a lack of exercise but "even after adjusting for such factors and any family history, researchers found that the risk was still high", the newspaper adds.
Dr Joel Ray from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto, Canada and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Health Sciences in the Netherlands carried out the study. Results, the analysis and the Nurses’ Health Study II were supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Research Division at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto and the US National Institutes of Health. It was published in the peer-reviewed: The Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
Apparently, the researchers have looked at women’s cup size and the rates of diabetes developing over 20 years in Canadian women. A link between breast size and diabetes was seen, but the researchers are unable to say from this study if the relationship is simply due to the overall weight or waist circumference increase you might expect in women who had larger than average breast size, as the link between obesity and type 2 diabetes is well known.
However, conclusions from this research are limited by the very strong association shown between body mass index (BMI) and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Read full article in Medical News Today.
