Evaluation of the Obesity Paradox in Diabetes: A Longitudinal Case-Control Study of Half a Million Patients

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1063447

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Obesity is a risk factor for developing diabetes. However, recent studies reported increased mortality risk associated with normal body weight in people with incident diabetes compared to overweight or obese patients. This “obesity paradox”, where being overweight appears to be protective, is new in diabetes. The mechanism behind this is not known. Using 20 years of follow-up data on 500,000 diabetes and control patients, this study proposes to find possible explanations behind obesity paradox.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $344,721.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cardiovascular disease prevention | clinical epidemiology | diabetes mellitus | longitudinal study | obesity

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