Open AccessAre body mass index and waist circumference significant predictors of diabetes and prediabetes risk: Results from a population based cohort study
Author(s) -
Fahimeh Haghighatdoost,
Masoud Amini,
Awat Feizi,
Bijan Iraj
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-9358
DOI - 10.4239/wjd.v8.i7.365
Subject(s) - prediabetes , medicine , waist , body mass index , diabetes mellitus , population , cohort , anthropometry , type 2 diabetes , risk factor , confounding , abdominal obesity , endocrinology , environmental health
To determine the predictive role of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) for diabetes and prediabetes risk in future in total sample as well as in men and women separately.