India, March 26 -- Type 2 diabetes is often triggered by a sedentary lifestyle or poor diet. At the same time, however, some people have genes that make it much more likely they will develop the disease. In other words, they are far more susceptible to developing diabetes.

"More people with a high genetic risk of developing type 2 diabetes are now developing the disease than they did in the past," said Vera Vik Bjarko.

Bjarko is a PhD research fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU's) Department of Public Health and Nursing. She and her colleagues recently published an article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

This time, the study included data from more than 86,000 people with almost 200,000 measurem...