Long-term risk of incident type 2 diabetes and measures of overall and regional obesity: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

Long-term risk of incident type 2 diabetes and measures of overall and regional obesity: the EPIC-InterAct case-cohort study.

<h4>Background</h4>Waist circumference (WC) is a simple and reliable measure of fat distribution that may add to the prediction of type 2 diabetes (T2D), but previous studies have been too small to reliably quantify the relative and absolute risk of future diabetes by WC at different lev...

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Main Authors: InterAct Consortium, Claudia Langenberg, Stephen J Sharp, Matthias B Schulze, Olov Rolandsson, Kim Overvad, Nita G Forouhi, Joachim Spranger, Dagmar Drogan, José María Huerta, Larraitz Arriola, Blandine de Lauzon-Guillan, Maria-Jose Tormo, Eva Ardanaz, Beverley Balkau, Joline W J Beulens, Heiner Boeing, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, Francesca L Crowe, Paul W Franks, Carlos A Gonzalez, Sara Grioni, Jytte Halkjaer, Goran Hallmans, Rudolf Kaaks, Nicola D Kerrison, Timothy J Key, Kay Tee Khaw, Amalia Mattiello, Peter Nilsson, Teresa Norat, Luigi Palla, Domenico Palli, Salvatore Panico, J Ramón Quirós, Dora Romaguera, Isabelle Romieu, Carlotta Sacerdote, María-José Sánchez, Nadia Slimani, Ivonne Sluijs, Annemieke M W Spijkerman, Birgit Teucher, Anne Tjonneland, Rosario Tumino, Daphne L van der A, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Edith J M Feskens, Elio Riboli, Nicholas J Wareham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001230
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