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It’s just as possible for a thin person to have diabetes as it is for many obese people to be surprisingly healthy.
Among patients receiving gastric bypass surgery in Singapore, ceramide levels – waxy lipid molecules found in cell membranes – predicted who had diabetes better than obesity did. Although all of the patients were obese, those who did not have type 2 diabetes showed less ceramide in their adipose tissue than those who were diagnosed with the condition.
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