Obesity, fatty liver, insulin resistance by any other fat related disorders, abodominal fat or visceral fat all have relation with fat and diabetes, a lot more are there,
Please find below artilces for few answers:
1. An Experimental Approach for Selecting Appropriate Rodent Diets for Research Studies on Metabolic Disorders
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2013/752870/
2. Body Adiposity and Type 2 Diabetes: Increased Risk With a High Body Fat Percentage Even Having a Normal BMI
Of course there is. For obese patients the treatment of type II DM is a great challenge. Here every biological data should be kept in concern e.g. TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, TC, Alb, TP, SGOT, SGPT, GGT etc. Basically all the lipid and liver profile become changed significantly during the NIDDM, so the metabolic disturbances gradually leads to further more obesity in case of highly obsessed diabetic patients.