Risk of the development of Type 2 diabetes in relation to overall obesity, abdominal obesity and the clustering of metabolic abnormalities in Japanese individuals: does metabolically healthy overweight really exist? The Niigata Wellness Study.

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AIMS: We investigated the risk of developing diabetes across various metabolic phenotypes by considering the presence of overall adiposity or abdominal adiposity and the number of metabolic abnormalities and aimed to clarify whether a 'healthy overweight' phenotype, that is, overweight with no metabolic abnormalities, was protective of the development of diabetes. METHODS: We studied 29 564 Japanese individuals...

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