Central rather than overall obesity is related to diabetes in the Chinese population: The InterASIA study

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2809-2816

  Hu, Dongsheng ^a,c   Xie, Jing ^a   Fu, Pengyu ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Yu, Dahai ^a   Whelton, Paul K ^b   He, Jiang ^b   Gu, Dongfeng ^c  

^a ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Central obesity; Diabetes; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 38048999174     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.333     Document Type: Article

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