1. Abdominal Obesity Is More Closely Associated With Diabetic Kidney Disease Than General Obesity.
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Jinbo Hu, Shumin Yang, Aipin Zhang, Ping Yang, Xueting Cao, Xiyue Li, Richa Goswami, Yue Wang, Ting Luo, Kun Liao, Qingfeng Cheng, Xiaoqiu Xiao, Qifu Li, Hu, Jinbo, Yang, Shumin, Zhang, Aipin, Yang, Ping, Cao, Xueting, Li, Xiyue, and Goswami, Richa
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OVERWEIGHT persons ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases ,DIABETIC retinopathy ,DIABETIC nephropathies ,TYPE 2 diabetes ,BODY mass index - Abstract
The article discusses the study on the major subtypes of obesity such as the general and the abdominal obesity which are known to be associated with chronic diabetes complications, like cardiovascular diseases and diabetic retinopathy. Topics discussed include the diabetic kidney disease (DKD), type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients assess through DXA, and the parameters of general obesity such as body mass index (BMI), total body fat percentage(TBF), and fat mass index (FMI).
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- 2016
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