Authors
TS Han, YY Al-Gindan, L Govan, CR Hankey, MEJ Lean
Publication date
2019/8/1
Journal
Acta diabetologica
Volume
56
Pages
947-954
Publisher
Springer Milan
Description
Aims
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is known to be associated with high BMI and waist circumference (WC). These measures do not discriminate well between skeletal muscle (SM) and body fat (BF), which may have opposite influences.
Methods
We conducted a secondary analysis of population-based data from 58,128 aged 18–85 yrs from Scottish Health Surveys (2003, 2008–2011) and Health Surveys for England (2003–2006, 2008–2013), excluding pregnant women and insulin-treated diabetes. Logistic regression was used to assess associations of known T2D, and of screened HbA1c > 48 mmol/mol (> 6.5%), with sex-specific quintiles of BMI, WC, and BF% and SM% estimated by validated anthropometric equations, adjusted for age, sex, smoking, ethnicity, country, and survey year.
Results
As expected, ORs for …
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