BMI cut points to identify at-risk Asian Americans for type 2 diabetes screening

Diabetes Care. 2015 Jan;38(1):150-8. doi: 10.2337/dc14-2391.

Authors

William C Hsu¹, Maria Rosario G Araneta², Alka M Kanaya³, Jane L Chiang⁴, Wilfred Fujimoto⁵

Affiliations

¹ Asian American Diabetes Initiative, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA william.hsu@joslin.harvard.edu.
² Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
⁴ American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, VA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Asian*
Body Mass Index*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / diagnosis*
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / epidemiology*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity / epidemiology*
Overweight / epidemiology*
Prevalence
Reference Values
Risk Factors
Waist Circumference

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