nma University research has found that ethnicity and BMI strongly and jointly influence a woman\u2019s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n
This study is a collaboration between the Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR) <\/a> and The University of Queensland School of Public Health <\/a>, led by Professor Gita Mishra <\/a>, Adjunct Professor of the International Open Laboratory.<\/p>\n Dr Kazue Nagai <\/a> and Dr Hsin-Fang Chung <\/a> analysed health data from more than 730,000 women across 15 studies conducted in Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, United States, and China.<\/p>\n \u201cOur findings show that Asian and Black women (including African American, Caribbean, other Black identities) have a markedly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes compared with Caucasian women in Australia, Europe, and the United States, and this risk is further amplified by higher BMI,\u201d Dr Nagai said.<\/p>\n \u201cSouth or Southeast Asian and Black women had the highest diabetes risk, reaching 25% by age 70. Japanese and Chinese women followed at around 18% and 12%, respectively, whereas Caucasian women had the lowest risk at 7%.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven after accounting for differences in body weight or central obesity, South or Southeast Asian women had more than four times the diabetes risk compared with Caucasian women, while Japanese, Chinese, Black, and Mixed or Other women had twice the risk,\u201d Dr Chung said.<\/p>\n \u201cAsian and Black women showed a greater diabetes risk than Caucasian women at the same BMI, even within the normal BMI range, and this risk was substantially higher among those with overweight or obesity.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAmong women with an obese BMI \u226530.0 kg\/m\u00b2, the risk for South or Southeast Asian women was 35-fold higher, followed by Black women (24-fold), Japanese women (20-fold), and Chinese women (14-fold), all exceeding the risk seen in Caucasian women (10-fold), compared with Caucasian women with a BMI of 18.5-22.9 kg\/m\u00b2.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis shows that ethnicity strongly influences diabetes risk, even at the same BMI.\u201d<\/p>\n Senior author Professor Gita Mishra said this is the largest study to examine how ethnicity and body weight jointly affect type 2 diabetes risk in women, with particular representation of three Asian subgroups.<\/p>\n \u201cOur findings suggest that Asian women, particularly South or Southeast Asians, may have unique risk profiles for type 2 diabetes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis highlights the need for early, ethnicity-specific diabetes prevention strategies, prioritising South or Southeast Asian women, including those with normal or modestly elevated BMI,\u201d Professor Mishra said.<\/p>\n The research was published in the journal Diabetes Care <\/a> and used data from the International collaboration for a Life course Approach to reproductive health and Chronic disease Event (InterLACE) <\/a> consortium.<\/p>\n \u25a0Publication Details:<\/strong> \u25a0Contact Information:<\/strong> Gunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR) \u25a0Related Links<\/strong> nma University research has found that ethnicity and BMI strongly and jointly influence a woman\u2019s risk of deve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.giar.gunma-u.ac.jp\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTitle:<\/strong> The Association Between Race\/Ethnicity and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women Varies by BMI: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Data From 15 Cohort Studies<\/a>
\nJournal:<\/strong> Diabetes Care<\/a>
\nDOI:<\/strong>\u300010.2337\/dc25-1478<\/a>
\nPublication date:<\/strong> December 2, 2025, 7:00 PM (Central Standard Time)- corresponds to December 3, 2025, 10:00 AM (Japan Standard Time)<\/p>\n
\nDr. Kazue Nagai
\nAssociate Professor, Gunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness\/
\nGunma University Initiative for Advanced Research (GIAR)
\nGunma University
\nEmail: kazue-nagai [at] gunma-u.ac.jp<\/p>\n
\nGIAR Support Office, Gunma University
\nEmail: kk-kensui4 [at] ml.gunma-u.ac.jp
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\nThe University of Queensland School of Public Health<\/a>
\nGunma University Initiative for Advanced Research<\/a>
\nGunma University Center for Food Science and Wellness<\/a>
\nGunma University Media Release(Original\/Japanese)<\/a>
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