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BMI and diabetes risk in Singaporean Chinese.

Odegaard AO, Koh WP, Vazquez G, Arakawa K, Lee HP, Yu MC, Pereira MA.

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Ethnicity, obesity, and risk of type 2 diabetes in women: a 20-year follow-up study.

Shai I, Jiang R, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Hu FB.

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Ethnicity modifies the association between diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease in Chinese, Malays and Asian Indians living in Singapore.

Yeo KK, Tai BC, Heng D, Lee JM, Ma S, Hughes K, Chew SK, Chia KS, Tai ES.

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Decoda Study Group, Nyamdorj R, Qiao Q, Lam TH, Tuomilehto J, Ho SY, Pitkäniemi J, Nakagami T, Mohan V, Janus ED, Ferreira SR.

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Shankar A, Leng C, Chia KS, Koh D, Tai ES, Saw SM, Lim SC, Wong TY.

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Obesity, coronary heart disease risk factors and diabetes in Chinese: an approach to the criteria of obesity in the Chinese population.

Li G, Chen X, Jang Y, Wang J, Xing X, Yang W, Hu Y.

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Overweight is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in Chinese populations.

Zhou B, Wu Y, Yang J, Li Y, Zhang H, Zhao L.

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Standard definitions of overweight and central adiposity for determining diabetes risk in Japanese Americans.

McNeely MJ, Boyko EJ, Shofer JB, Newell-Morris L, Leonetti DL, Fujimoto WY.

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The relationship between body mass index and the prevalence of obesity-related diseases based on the 1995 National Health Interview Survey in Korea.

Moon OR, Kim NS, Jang SM, Yoon TH, Kim SO.

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Ethnic differences among Chinese, Malay and Indian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Singapore.

Hong CY, Chia KS, Hughes K, Ling SL.

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Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic retinopathy: the Singapore Malay Eye Study.

Wong TY, Cheung N, Tay WT, Wang JJ, Aung T, Saw SM, Lim SC, Tai ES, Mitchell P.

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Body mass index, waist circumference, waist-hip ratio, and glucose intolerance in Chinese and Europid adults in Newcastle, UK.

Unwin N, Harland J, White M, Bhopal R, Winocour P, Stephenson P, Watson W, Turner C, Alberti KG.

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Cutoff values for normal anthropometric variables in asian Indian adults.

Snehalatha C, Viswanathan V, Ramachandran A.

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Energy balance and type 2 diabetes: a report from the Shanghai Women's Health Study.

Villegas R, Shu XO, Yang G, Matthews CE, Li H, Cai H, Gao Y, Zheng W.

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Weight change and duration of overweight and obesity in the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

Wannamethee SG, Shaper AG.

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Mortality risk by body weight and weight change in people with NIDDM. The WHO Multinational Study of Vascular Disease in Diabetes.

Chaturvedi N, Fuller JH.

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Sleep disturbances in midlife unrelated to 32-year diabetes incidence: the prospective population study of women in Gothenburg.

Björkelund C, Bondyr-Carlsson D, Lapidus L, Lissner L, Månsson J, Skoog I, Bengtsson C.

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Alcohol consumption and other risk factors for self-reported diabetes among middle-aged Japanese: a population-based prospective study in the JPHC study cohort I.

Waki K, Noda M, Sasaki S, Matsumura Y, Takahashi Y, Isogawa A, Ohashi Y, Kadowaki T, Tsugane S; JPHC Study Group.

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Alcohol consumption and the risk of diabetes by body mass index levels in a cohort of 5,636 Japanese.

Watanabe M, Barzi F, Neal B, Ueshima H, Miyoshi Y, Okayama A, Choudhury SR.

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