Visceral fat and cardiorespiratory fitness with prevalence of pre-diabetes/diabetes mellitus among middle-aged and elderly Japanese people: WASEDA'S Health Study.

The relationships between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) measurements not confounded by adiposity and the prevalence of pre-diabetes mellitus (pre-DM) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are not well known. Thus, we aimed to investigate the associations of visceral fat (VF) and CRF with the prevalence of pr...

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Main Authors: Chiyoko Usui, Ryoko Kawakami, Kumpei Tanisawa, Tomoko Ito, Hiroki Tabata, Satoshi Iizuka, Takuji Kawamura, Taishi Midorikawa, Susumu S Sawada, Suguru Torii, Shizuo Sakamoto, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Kaori Ishii, Koichiro Oka, Isao Muraoka, Mitsuru Higuchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241018