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Can a healthy and otherwise fit person be diagnosed with diabetes 2?
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Diabetes: Usually type 2 diabetes appears in a middle age person who are unfit and overweight. It is unlikely to appear in a young healthy fit person, but it is also not impossible.
Answered 9/29/2016
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