Metabolically Healthy Obesity, Presence or Absence of Fatty Liver, and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Japanese Individuals: Toranomon Hospital Health Management Center Study 20 (TOPICS 20)
Author(s) -
Yoriko Heianza,
Yasuji Arase,
Hiroshi Tsuji,
Kazuya Fujihara,
Kazumi Saito,
Shiun Dong Hsieh,
Shiro Tanaka,
Satoru Kodama,
Shigeko Hara,
Hirohito Sone
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2013-4427
Subject(s) - type 2 diabetes , obesity , medicine , center (category theory) , fatty liver , diabetes mellitus , gerontology , environmental health , endocrinology , disease , chemistry , crystallography
We investigated whether the metabolically healthy obese (MHO) phenotype was associated with an increased risk of the development of diabetes. If so, we aimed to determine what factors could explain this finding.
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