Analysis of waist circumference in Japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Lack of propriety to define the current criteria of metabolic syndrome

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 77, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Kanda, Yukiko ^a   Matsuda, Masafumi ^a   Hamamoto, Sumiko ^a   Kawasaki, Fumiko ^a   Kotani, Ko ^a   Matsuki, Michihiro ^a   Kaku, Kohei ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Metabolic syndrome; Visceral fat area; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; BODY SIZE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERA;

EID: 34547652570     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2007.01.061     Document Type: Article

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