Minimum waist and visceral fat values for identifying Japanese Americans at risk for the metabolic syndrome

Diabetes Care

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-127

  Hayashi, Tomoshige ^a,b   Boyko, Edward J ^a,c,d   McNeely, Marguerite J ^c   Leonetti, Donna L ^c   Kahn, Steven E ^a,c   Fujimoto, Wilfred Y ^c  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUDEN INDEX;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; VISCERA; WASHINGTON;

EID: 33846004182     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 01495992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0739     Document Type: Article

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