Zobida Islam, Shamima Akter, Yosuke Inoue, Huan Hu, Keisuke Kuwahara, Tohru Nakagawa, Toru Honda, Shuichiro Yamamoto, Hiroko Okazaki, Toshiaki Miyamoto, Takayuki Ogasawara, Naoko Sasaki, Akihiko Uehara, Makoto Yamamoto, Takeshi Kochi, Masafumi Eguchi, Taiki Shirasaka, Makiko Shimizu, Satsue Nagahama, Ai Hori, Teppei Imai, Akiko Nishihara, Kentaro Tomita, Tomofumi Sone, Maki Konishi, Isamu Kabe, Tetsuya Mizoue, Seitaro Dohi
OBJECTIVE: Prediabetes has been suggested to increase risk for death; however, the definitions of prediabetes that can predict death remain elusive. We prospectively investigated the association of multiple definitions of prediabetes with the risk of death from all-causes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer in Japanese workers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: The study included 62,785 workers who underwent a health checkup in 2010 or 2011 and were followed up for death from 2012 to March 2019...
January 13, 2021: Diabetes Care