BMI and diabetes risk in Singaporean Chinese

Diabetes Care

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1104-1106

  Odegaard, Andrew O ^a   Koh, Woon Puay ^b   Vazquez, Gabrielle ^a   Arakawa, Kazuko ^a   Lee, Hin Peng ^b   Yu, Mimi C ^a   Pereira, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINESE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGAPORE;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 66549105720     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc08-1674     Document Type: Article

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