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Diabetes Care 29:1989 2006
DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0950
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Letters: Comments and Responses

Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals With Central Obesity in a Rural Japanese Population: The Tanno and Sobetssu Study

Response to Oda

Hirofumi Ohnishi, MD, PHD, Shigeyuki Saitohi, MD, PHD, Satoru Takagii, MD, PHD, Nobuo Katohi, MD, Yu Chibai, MD, Hiroshi Akasakai, MD, PHD, Yosuke Nakamurai, MD, PHD and Kazuaki Shimamotoi, MD, PHD

From the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, School of Medicine, Chuoku, Sapporo, Japan

Address correspondence 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

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We are grateful for Dr. Oda’s comments (1) on our recent report (2) regarding the usefulness of central obesity assessed by waist circumference in clinical risk assessment for type 2 diabetes in Japanese people. We agree with his opinion that the current Japanese cutoff points for central obesity (85 cm for men and 90 cm for women) are problematic and that there is ground for controversy.

We recalculated the risk of central obesity assessed by waist circumference for type 2 diabetes, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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