King’s College London scientists suggest, “a new type of blood test using lipids could make it easier to identify children at risk of complications around obesity including type two diabetes, liver and heart disease.”
The study was published in Nature Medicine.
Study details according to a release:
“Taking a control sample of 1,300 children with obesity, the team assessed their lipids in blood. Afterwards 200 of them were put on the HOLBAEK-model for a year, a lifestyle intervention for people with obesity popular in Denmark.
Subsequent readings showed that amongst the intervention group, counts of lipids tied to diabetes risk, insulin resistance and blood pressure decreased, despite limited improvements in some children’s BMI.”
