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" Tackling obesity in the &amp;#039;East London Diabetes Belt&amp;#039; is a major challenge that should pose a significant part of the legacy to the 2012 Olympic Games. That is according to new research by Queen Mary, University of London, which found that across three London boroughs, as many as one in ten are at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes within the net decade. In the area around Stratford Olympic Park, the figure was as high as one in six adults. Writing in the British Journal of General Practice, the team looked at half a million electronic records for people without diabetes across Tower Hamlets, Newham and City &amp;amp;amp; Hackney. &amp;quot;We found the risk of diabetes is very high, with about one in ten people being at high risk overall, and in some parts, such as the north-eastern corner of Newham, rising to around one in six,&amp;quot; said Dr Dianna Smith, who has created a map of the &amp;#039;diabetes belt&amp;#039; in east London. She explained that the belt runs near the Olympic Park and across areas of deprivation and those with high proportions of south Asian and black ethnic groups. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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