Lower Vital Capacity Is Associated With Diabetes but Not With Metabolic Syndrome in Nonobese Japanese Men
Response to Nakajima and Saito
- From the Medical Check-up Center, Tachikawa Medical Center, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan.
- Corresponding author: Eiji Oda, ijie{at}venus.sannet.ne.jp.
We appreciate the comment on our observation by Nakajima and Saito (1). They suggested that low percentage vital capacity (%VC), which commonly reflects restrictive lung, in nonobese men might be associated with the characteristics of metabolically obese but normal-weight individuals (2). We partially agree with them. However, when we examined men with BMI <23 kg/m2, excluding current smokers, the frequency of diabetes was higher but the frequency of metabolic syndrome (MetS) was lower in subjects …
