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Abdominal obesity phenotypes and incident diabetes over 12 years of follow-up: The Tehran Lipid and glucose study.
Diabetes research and clinical practice - 1 Oct 2018
Salehinia Farahnaz, Abdi Hengameh, Hadaegh Farzad, Serahati Sara, Valizadeh Majid, Azizi Fereidoun, Hosseinpanah Farhad
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AIMS: To investigate future diabetes in different abdominal obesity phenotypes during 12 years of follow-up. METHODS: For this population-based cohort, 7982 adults without diabetes including 3533 men and 4449 women, aged ≥20 years were selected from the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study. Abdominal obesity was defined according to the national cutoffs for waist circumference (WC). Metabolic health was defined as...
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