Journal article
The relationship between generalized and abdominal obesity with diabetic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes: A multiethnic asian study and meta-analysis
REK Man, ATL Gan, EK Fenwick, P Gupta, MYZ Wong, TY Wong, GSW Tan, BW Teo, C Sabanayagam, EL Lamoureux
Nutrients | MDPI | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.3390/nu10111685
Abstract
This study examined the associations of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-height ratio (WHtR) with diabetic kidney disease (DKD) in a clinical sample of Asian patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM); substantiated with a meta-analysis of the above associations. We recruited 405 patients with T2DM (mean (standard deviation (SD)) age: 58 (7.5) years; 277 (68.4%) male; 203 (50.1%) with DKD) from a tertiary care centre in Singapore. DKD was defined as urinary albumin-creatinine ratio >3.3 mg/mmoL and/or estimated glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min/1.73 m2. All exposures were analysed continuously and categorically (World Health Organization cut-poin..
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Awarded by National Medical Research Council (Singapore) as part of its Centre/Programmatic Project Grant
Funding Acknowledgements
The Singapore Diabetes Management project was funded by the National Medical Research Council (Singapore) as part of its Centre/Programmatic Project Grant (#CG/SERI/2010). The grant body had no roles in design, conduct or data analysis of the study, nor in manuscript preparation and approval.