Changes in Waist Circumference and the incidence of diabetes in middle-aged men and women

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Berentzen, Tina Landsvig ^a   Jakobsen, Marianne Uhre ^b   Halkjaer, Jytte ^c   Tjønneland, Anne ^c   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^a   Overvad, Kim ^b,d  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT CHANGE; DENMARK; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

BODY MASS INDEX; DENMARK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84855162719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023104     Document Type: Article

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