Incidence of diabetes according to metabolically healthy or unhealthy normal weight or overweight/obesity in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative

Objective: To determine the relationship of metabolic weight categories with incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in postmenopausal women. Methods: The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) enrolled 161,808 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years. We included those with cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarkers and free of CVD and prevalent DM (n = 17,043) at baseline. Normal weight was defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥18.5 and
Source: Menopause - Category: OBGYN Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research