Yuji Kaneda, Shizukiyo Ishikawa, Atsuko Sadakane, Tadao Gotoh, Kazunori Kayaba, Yoshikazu Yasuda, Eiji Kajii
The aim of the study was to investigate the relation between insulin resistance and risk of cerebral infarction in a Japanese general population. The subjects were 2610 men and women without past history of stroke or myocardial infarction and who were under treatment for diabetes. Subjects were divided into quartiles by the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), and Cox's proportional hazard model was used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for cerebral infarction. In men, the multivariate-adjusted HRs were 2...
March 2015: Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health