Response to the letter by Dr. Tomoyuki Kawada regarding our manuscript: Independent association between prediabetes and future pancreatic fat accumulation: a 5-year Japanese cohort study

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan. yamazaki-myz@umin.ac.jp.
• ² Department of Radiology, Keijinkai Maruyama Clinic, 3-16, Odori Nishi 26-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, 064-0820, Japan.
• ³ Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
• ⁴ Department of Health Checkup and Promotion, Keijinkai Maruyama Clinic, 3-16, Odori Nishi 26-chome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, 064-0820, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Radiology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-40, 1-jo 12-chome, Maeda, Teine-ku, Sapporo, 006-8555, Japan.
• ⁶ Center for Gastroenterology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-40, 1-jo 12-chome, Maeda, Teine-ku, Sapporo, 006-8555, Japan.
• ⁷ Human Health Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Yoshida Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.