India, July 15 -- A major new international study led by Curtin University has found that diabetes risk is about more than just body weight or obesity, with muscle health also likely to play a significant role in determining whether a person develops the condition.

Published in Diabetes Care, one of the world's leading diabetes journals, the study involved researchers from the Curtin School of Population Health and the Dementia Centre of Excellence at the Curtin enAble Institute analysing health data from nearly 480,000 adults over 14 years. All participants were diabetes-free at the beginning of the study.

The study also found that people with sarcopenic obesity were 19 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with ob...