Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: To evaluate the chance of developing new cases of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) in obese people in the population sample of the city of Novosibirsk aged 45–69 years.Materials and methods: The analysis included 2464 people, including 586 (23.7%) men and 1878 (76.2%) women without DM. This sample was formed from the base of the international project HAPIEE surveyed from 2003 to 2005. When conducting a re-screening of the same sample in 2006...