Study findings from Vanderbilt University, Department of Medicine broaden understanding of obesity and diabetes epidemiology

Research findings, "Abdominal adiposity and mortality in Chinese women," are discussed in a new report. "Increased abdominal adiposity has been linked to an increase in mortality in populations where many are overweight or obese; it is unclear whether the same is true in relatively lean populations. We examined the association between waist-hip ratio and mortality in the Shanghai Women's Health Study, a population-based, prospective cohort study of Chinese women aged 40 to 70 years enrolled from December 28, 1996, through May 23, 2000, 95% of whom had a body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of less than 30.0," scientists writing in the...

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