Why the study?
Does excess waist circumference predict cardiovascular disease events in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes?
Population
1,424 Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes
Comparison
Excess waist circumference (WC) vs Normal waist circumference
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
8 years
Authors
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Waist circumference alone should not guide CVD risk assessment in T2D; leaves open its incremental value alongside other factors.
Does excess waist circumference predict cardiovascular disease events in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes?
Excess waist circumference alone is not an independent predictor of cardiovascular events in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes, requiring coexisting risk factors like hypertension to confer risk.
Sone et al. (2008) studied this question.
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