Body mass index and diabetes in Asia: a cross-sectional pooled analysis of 900,000 individuals in the Asia cohort consortium.

The occurrence of diabetes has greatly increased in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Asia, as has the prevalence of overweight and obesity; in European-derived populations, overweight and obesity are established causes of diabetes. The shape of the association of overweight and obes...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paolo Boffetta, Dale McLerran, Yu Chen, Manami Inoue, Rashmi Sinha, Jiang He, Prakash Chandra Gupta, Shoichiro Tsugane, Fujiko Irie, Akiko Tamakoshi, Yu-Tang Gao, Xiao-Ou Shu, Renwei Wang, Ichiro Tsuji, Shinichi Kuriyama, Keitaro Matsuo, Hiroshi Satoh, Chien-Jen Chen, Jian-Min Yuan, Keun-Young Yoo, Habibul Ahsan, Wen-Harn Pan, Dongfeng Gu, Mangesh Suryakant Pednekar, Shizuka Sasazuki, Toshimi Sairenchi, Gong Yang, Yong-Bing Xiang, Masato Nagai, Hideo Tanaka, Yoshikazu Nishino, San-Lin You, Woon-Puay Koh, Sue K Park, Chen-Yang Shen, Mark Thornquist, Daehee Kang, Betsy Rolland, Ziding Feng, Wei Zheng, John D Potter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3120751?pdf=render