Endocrine Abstracts

The present study aimed to explore the relationship of sarcopenia, with or without the presence of obesity, with the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 2981 subjects in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study. The diabetes status of each subject was determined by using a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test, and body composition was estimated via dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The skeletal muscle mass index (SMI, %) was obtained by c...

Background: There is no existing longitudinal study to support ethnicity-specific and body mass index (BMI) category-specific waist circumference (WC) thresholds and their potential clinical utility to assess the risk of obesity-related diseases.Methods: We performed a prospective assessment of 5,852,702 subjects in large-scale population-based cohort dataset obtained from the Korea National Health Insurance System. BMI was categorized into 6 subgroups (...