Western-Style Fast Food May Raise Risk Of Diabetes, Heart Disease.

MedPage Today  (7/5, Bankhead) reports that a study  published online July 2 in Circulation found that "eating Western-style fast food on a regular basis significantly increased the risk of diabetes and coronary heart disease in a large Asian cohort, investigators reported. The diabetes odds increased by 27% and CHD risk by 56% among Singapore residents who ate fast food at least twice a week." The study covered participants "from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which enrolled 63,257 individuals from 1993 to 1998. For the fast-food study, investigators conducted follow-up telephone interviews during 1999 to 2004 for 52,584 members of the original cohort." HeartWire  (7/5, O'Riordan) also covers the story.