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Body Mass Index and Diabetes in Asia: A Cross-Sectional Pooled Analysis of 900,000 Individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium

Paolo Boffetta, Dale McLerran, Yu Chen, Manami Inoue, Rashmi Sinha, Jiang He, Prakash C. Gupta, Shoichiro Tsugane, Fujiko Irie, Akiko Tamakoshi,

PLoS ONE · 2011 · 347 citations · 43 references

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Abstract

This study estimated the shape and the strength of the association between BMI and prevalence of diabetes in Asian populations and identified patterns of the association by age, country, and other risk factors for diabetes.

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