Body fat distribution and risk of diabetes among Chinese women

To assess the relationship between measures of central and overall obesity and risk of diabetes.Nested case-control study.Shanghai, China.A total of 57 130 women were screened for diabetes at enrollment for the Shanghai Women's Health Study (SWHS), a population-based cohort study of Chinese women aged 40-70 y. In this study, 345 women diagnosed with diabetes and 2760 age-matched controls (eight controls per case), randomly selected from women...