Identification of Obesity in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes From Australian Primary Care
The NEFRON-5 Study
- Merlin C. Thomas, MBCHB, PHD, FRACP1,
- Paul Zimmet, MD, PHD, FRACP, FACE, FAFPHM, AO2 and
- Jonathan E. Shaw, MD, MRCP, FRACP2
- 1Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/Danielle Alberti Memorial Centre for Diabetes Complications, Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Merlin Thomas, Danielle Alberti Memorial Centre for Diabetic Complications, Baker Medical Research Institute, P.O. Box 6492, Melbourne, Victoria 8008, Australia. E-mail: mthomas{at}baker.edu.au
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- Figure 1—
Venn diagrams showing the pattern of obesity with type 2 diabetes in Australian general practice in Caucasian patients (A), Asian patients (B), and indigenous Australians (C). Cross hatch denotes patients with obesity defined by race-specific BMI criteria; light shading denotes patients with abdominal obesity defined by race-specific waist circumference criteria (see text).
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Identification of Obesity in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes From Australian Primary Care
