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The Sun report that diabetes is linked to breast size. More from the article said that women who wear a large bra size are much more likely to develop diabetes than women with an A cup.

Type 2 diabetes is often linked to lifestyle factors, such as obesity and a lack of exercise but even after adjusting for such factors and any family history, researchers found that the risk was still high.

They said from a recent study involving data from more than 90,000 women in Canada, researchers looked at women’s cup size and the rates of diabetes developing over the last 20 years.

Dr Joel Ray from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto, Canada and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Health Sciences in the Netherlands who carried out the study.

Their analysis were supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Research Division at St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto and the US National Institutes of Health. The results of the study was published in the peer-reviewed: The Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.

More of this article can be read on the NHS website.