Optimal waist circumference cut-off points and ability of different metabolic syndrome criteria for predicting diabetes in Japanese men and women: Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study

• Main Authors: Huanhuan Hu (Author), Kayo Kurotani (Author), Naoko Sasaki (Author), Taizo Murakami (Author), Chii Shimizu (Author), Makiko Shimizu (Author), Tohru Nakagawa (Author), Toru Honda (Author), Shuichiro Yamamoto (Author), Hiroko Okazaki (Author), Satsue Nagahama (Author), Akihiko Uehara (Author), Makoto Yamamoto (Author), Kentaro Tomita (Author), Teppei Imai (Author), Akiko Nishihara (Author), Takeshi Kochi (Author), Masafumi Eguchi (Author), Toshiaki Miyamoto (Author), Ai Hori (Author), Keisuke Kuwahara (Author), Shamima Akter (Author), Ikuko Kashino (Author), Isamu Kabe (Author), Weiping Liu (Author), Tetsuya Mizoue (Author), Naoki Kunugita (Author), Seitaro Dohi (Author), the Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We sought to establish the optimal waist circumference (WC) cut-off point for predicting diabetes mellitus (DM) and to compare the predictive ability of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) criteria of the Joint Interim Statement (JIS) and the Japanese Committee of the Criteria for MetS...