Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple Overweight/Obesity in Mexican Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare the risk for diabetes in each of 4 categories of metabolic health and BMI.

Methods

Participants were drawn from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort, a randomly selected Mexican American cohort in Texas on the US-Mexico border. Subjects were divided into 4 phenotypes according to metabolic health and BMI: metabolically healthy normal weight, metabolically healthy overweight/obese, metabolically unhealthy normal weight, and metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese. Metabolic health was defined as having less than 2 metabolic abnormalities. Overweight/obese status was assessed by BMI higher than 25 kg/m(2). Diabetes was defined by the 2010 ADA definition or by being on a diabetic medication.

Results

The odds ratio for diabetes risk was 2.25 in the metab

SUBMITTER: Wu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4736910 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature