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One Blood Type Seems to Carry a Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
The review of fifty-one systematic reviews, published in BMC Medicine, found type B carries about twenty-eight percent higher type 2 diabetes risk; diet and weight still matter far more.
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- First reported by ScienceAlert: “One Blood Type Seems to Carry a Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes”.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 4:19 PM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
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Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentResearchers checked two hundred seventy reported links between blood type and disease.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentOnly one met the highest standard of evidence: type B and type 2 diabetes, about twenty-eight percent higher risk on average.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSo two hundred sixty-nine of those claims are horoscopes with a needle in them, and diet, activity and weight still matter far more.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'm type O, so I'm the only person in this study with no plot.
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