Adults ‘at risk of type 2 diabetes if they cannot wear trousers they wore at 21’

A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test (PA)

Adults are “at risk of developing type 2 diabetes” if they can no longer fit into the jeans they were wearing when they were 21, an academic has said.

Presenting data to a leading diabetes conference, Professor Roy Taylor from Newcastle University said that people’s waist should be the same size now as it was when they were 21.