BMI Trajectories as a Harbinger of Pre-Diabetes or Underdiagnosed Diabetes: an 18-Year Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although prior studies have examined BMI trajectories in Western populations, little is known regarding how BMI trajectories in Asian populations vary between adults with and without diabetes.

Objective

To examine how BMI trajectories vary between those developing and not developing diabetes over 18 years in an Asian cohort.

Design

Multilevel modeling was used to depict levels and rates of change in BMI for up to 18 years for participants with and without self-reported physician-diagnosed diabetes.

Participants

We used 14,490 data points available from repeated measurements of 3776 participants aged 50+ at baseline without diabetes from a nationally representative survey of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA1989-2007).

Main measures

SUBMITTER: Chiu CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023607 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature