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Diabetes Care 29:1986-1987, 2006
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-1018
© 2006 by the American Diabetes Association
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Letters: Observations

A Proposal for the Cutoff Point of Waist Circumference for the Diagnosis of Metabolic Syndrome in the Japanese Population

Takayoshi Ohkubo, MD, PHD1, Masahiro Kikuya, MD, PHD2, Kei Asayama, MD, PHD1 and Yutaka Imai, MD, PHD2

1 Department of Planning for Drug Development and Clinical Evaluation, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2 Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Address correspondence to Takayoshi Ohkubo, MD, PhD, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan. E-mail: tohkubo@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp

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In a community-based cohort of 692 Japanese individuals, Hara et al. (1) investigated the relationship between cutoff values used for the waist circumference to define central obesity and rates of detection of subjects displaying multiple risk factors of metabolic syndrome. Using the receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) curve, they proposed an optimal cutoff point of waist circumference for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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