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Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals With Central Obesity in a Rural Japanese Population

The Tanno and Sobetsu Study

Second Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Hirofumi Ohnishi, MD, PhD, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, S-1, W-16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. E-mail: hohnishi@sapmed.ac.jp

Abbreviations: IDF, International Diabetes Federation

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	INTRODUCTION

 
According to the new International Diabetes Federation (IDF) definition of metabolic syndrome, for a person to be defined as having metabolic syndrome they must have central obesity defined by waist circumference (1). In the definition, there are some ethnic or country-specific differences in the cutoff points of waist circumference, and Japanese cutoff points have been separately established in the IDF definition (85 cm for men and 90 cm for women). The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and eight related scientific societies have also jointly announced new Japanese criteria of metabolic syndrome using the same cutoff points of waist circumference (2). However, the impact of central obesity using the cutoff points as a risk of type 2 diabetes is not known.

In this study, we investigated the incidence of type 2 diabetes in citizens of two rural communities in Japan to determine the relationship between type 2 diabetes and central obesity, and we also investigated the independent effects of central obesity compared with those of overall obesity.

	RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

 
The subjects were 348 men and 523 women selected from 938 citizens who had undergone medical examinations in the towns of Tanno and Sobetsu, Hokkaido, both in 1994 and 2003 or 2004.

The following participants in medical examinations in 1994 were excluded: those with missing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

	RESULTS

 

	CONCLUSIONS

 

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