Body Mass Index and Mortality Among Japanese Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Pooled Analysis of the Japan Diabetes Complications Study and the Japanese Elderly Diabetes Intervention Trial
Author(s) -
Shiro Tanaka,
Sachiko Tanaka,
Satoshi Iimuro,
Yasuo Akanuma,
Yasuo Ohashi,
Nobuhiro Yamada,
Atsushi Araki,
Hideki Ito,
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.2014-1855
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , body mass index , diabetes mellitus , type 2 diabetes , obesity , proportional hazards model , confounding , confidence interval , population , demography , endocrinology , environmental health , sociology
Previous studies on the association between body mass index (BMI) and mortality in diabetes do not necessarily provide a comprehensive view in terms of the global population because of the exclusion of individuals with a BMI less than 18.5 kg/m(2).
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