Risk of type 2 diabetes according to traditional and emerging anthropometric indices in Spain, a mediterranean country with high prevalence of obesity: results from a large-scale prospective cohort study
Background: Obesity is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). A proper anthropometric characterisation of T2DM risk is essential for disease prevention and clinical risk assessement. Methods: Longitudinal study in 37 733 participants (63% women) of the Spanish EPIC (European Pros...
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格式: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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BioMed Central
2014
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在线阅读: | https://hdl.handle.net/10171/37072 |