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Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple OverweightObesity in Mexican Americans
Joint Authors
Wu, Shenghui
Fisher-Hoch, Susan P.
Reninger, Belinda
Vatcheva, Kristina
McCormick, Joseph B.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-01-10
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Purpose.
To compare the risk for diabetes in each of 4 categories of metabolic health and BMI.
Methods.
Participants were drawn from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort, a randomly selected Mexican American cohort in Texas on the US-Mexico border.
Subjects were divided into 4 phenotypes according to metabolic health and BMI: metabolically healthy normal weight, metabolically healthy overweight/obese, metabolically unhealthy normal weight, and metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese.
Metabolic health was defined as having less than 2 metabolic abnormalities.
Overweight/obese status was assessed by BMI higher than 25 kg/m2.
Diabetes was defined by the 2010 ADA definition or by being on a diabetic medication.
Results.
The odds ratio for diabetes risk was 2.25 in the metabolically healthy overweight/obese phenotype (95% CI 1.34, 3.79), 3.78 (1.57, 9.09) in the metabolically unhealthy normal weight phenotype, and 5.39 (3.16, 9.20) in metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese phenotype after adjusting for confounding factors compared with the metabolically healthy normal weight phenotype.
Conclusions.
Metabolic health had a greater effect on the increased risk for diabetes than overweight/obesity.
Greater focus on metabolic health might be a more effective target for prevention and control of diabetes than emphasis on weight loss alone.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wu, Shenghui& Fisher-Hoch, Susan P.& Reninger, Belinda& Vatcheva, Kristina& McCormick, Joseph B.. 2016. Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple OverweightObesity in Mexican Americans. Journal of Diabetes Research،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1108095
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wu, Shenghui…[et al.]. Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple OverweightObesity in Mexican Americans. Journal of Diabetes Research No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1108095
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wu, Shenghui& Fisher-Hoch, Susan P.& Reninger, Belinda& Vatcheva, Kristina& McCormick, Joseph B.. Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple OverweightObesity in Mexican Americans. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1108095
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1108095