Title |
Long-Term Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Measures of Overall and Regional Obesity: The EPIC-InterAct Case-Cohort Study
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Published in |
PLOS Medicine, June 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001230 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Claudia Langenberg, Stephen J Sharp, Matthias B Schulze, Olov Rolandsson, Kim Overvad, Nita G Forouhi, Joachim Spranger, Dagmar Drogan, José María Huerta, Larraitz Arriola, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillan, Maria-Jose Tormo, Eva Ardanaz, Beverley Balkau, Joline W J Beulens, Heiner Boeing, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Francesca L Crowe, Paul W Franks, Carlos A Gonzalez, Sara Grioni, Jytte Halkjaer, Goran Hallmans, Rudolf Kaaks, Nicola D Kerrison, Timothy J Key, Kay Tee Khaw, Amalia Mattiello, Peter Nilsson, Teresa Norat, Luigi Palla, Domenico Palli, Salvatore Panico, J Ramón Quirós, Dora Romaguera, Isabelle Romieu, Carlotta Sacerdote, María-José Sánchez, Nadia Slimani, Ivonne Sluijs, Annemieke M W Spijkerman, Birgit Teucher, Anne Tjonneland, Rosario Tumino, Daphne L van der A, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Edith J M Feskens, Elio Riboli, Nicholas J Wareham |
Abstract |
Waist circumference (WC) is a simple and reliable measure of fat distribution that may add to the prediction of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but previous studies have been too small to reliably quantify the relative and absolute risk of future diabetes by WC at different levels of body mass index (BMI). |
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Canada | 2 | 6% |
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Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 5% |
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Unknown | 46 | 22% |
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