Prevention Strategies Dept: The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences led the report, released Wednesday. The projections work out to about nine out of 100 Canadians predicted to get diagnosed with diabetes during the 10-year period, based on their weight and other risk factors, according to CBC. Previously, it was thought that only highly obese people were at risk and needed to be targeted with prevention strategies. But the report shows new cases of diabetes will occur throughout society, said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Doug Manuel, a scientist at ICES and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and about 1.9 million Canadians could develop diabetes between 2007 and 2017, according to a new report. Using a body mass index BMI of between 25 and 30 to define overweight, the researchers said 712,000 cases of diabetes are predicted to develop among this group, while 247,000 cases are expected to develop among the very obese, with a BMI of more than 35. As
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