Dr. Fumiaki Imamura, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Heath
Department of Epidemiology
677 Huntington Ave, Kresge-913C
Boston, MA
MedicalResearch.com: What are the main findings of the study?
Dr. Imamura: Among older adults, risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) were differentially associated with DM preceded predominantly by IR or β-cell dysfunction.
MedicalResearch.com:Were any of the findings unexpected?
Dr. Imamura: For subsets of incident DM, some conventional DM risk factors, including body-mass index and HDL-cholesterol, could not predict incident DM.
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