Ethnicity and BMI cutoff for diabetes type 2

Ethnicity-specific BMI cutoffs for obesity based on type 2 diabetes risk in England: a population-based cohort study
The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology May 11, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(21)00088-7

• Analysis of data from electronic health records across primary care (Clinical Practice Research Datalink) linked to secondary care records (Hospital Episodes Statistics) from a network of general practitioner practices in England shows that Black Caribbean, south Asian, Chinese, and Arab populations living in England had an equivalent risk of type 2 diabetes at substantially lower BMI values than the current BMI cutoffs for obesity.