Seven Key Factors Identified That May Help Explain Relationship Between Educational Attainment, T2D Risk.

reports investigators have “identified seven key risk factors that help explain the relationship between educational attainment and type 2 diabetes [T2D] risk” after studying data on some 7,462 German adults ages 50 to 75. The seven risk factors are body-mass index, “alcohol consumption, hypertension, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, physical activity, and smoking.” Taken together, “these seven factors explained 32% of the relationship between education and type 2 diabetes risk,” the study revealed. The findings were published online in BMJ Open. http://www.medpagetoday.com/endocrinology/diabetes/64651