Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 55, Issue 1 , Pages 65-85 , January 2002

Report of the Committee on the classification and diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus

  • The Committee of the Japan Diabetes Society on the diagnostic criteria of diabetes mellitus
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  • Takeshi Kuzuya

      Affiliations

    • Aino Institute for Aging Research, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: 9-40 Kyo-Machi, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 320-0842, Japan. Tel./fax: +81-28-634-9070
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  • Shoichi Nakagawa

      Affiliations

    • Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Jo Satoh

      Affiliations

    • Division of Molecular Metabolism and Diabetes, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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  • Yasunori Kanazawa

      Affiliations

    • Omiya Medical Center, Jichi Medical School, Omiya, Japan
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  • Yasuhiko Iwamoto

      Affiliations

    • Diabetes Center, Tokyo Women's medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Masashi Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan
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  • Kisihio Nanjo

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Medicine, Wakayama Universtiy of Medical Science, Wakayama, Japan
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  • Akira Sasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Osaka Seijinbyo Center, Medical Institute for Noncommunicable Diseases, Osaka, Japan
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  • Yutaka Seino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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  • Chikako Ito

      Affiliations

    • Hiroshima A-Bomb Casualty Council Health Management Center, Hiroshima, Japan
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  • Kenji Shima

      Affiliations

    • Kawashima Hospital, Tokushima, Japan
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  • Kyohei Nonaka

      Affiliations

    • Shiroishi Joint Hospital, Shiroishi-cho, Japan
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  • Takashi Kadowaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Metabolic Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

,Accepted 31 August 2001.

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☆ This article is the English version of the original report published in Journal of the Japan Diabetes Society 42: 385–404, 1999 in Japanese, adapted for readers outside Japan. References are updated.

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