Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 74, Issue 2 , Pages 169-174 , November 2006

Incidence of type-2 diabetes mellitus in a large population of Japanese male white-collar workers

  • Teruo Nagaya

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1 Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81 52 853 8175; fax: +81 52 842 3830.
    • ,
  • Hideyo Yoshida

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, 35-2 Sakae-machi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan
    • ,
  • Hidekatsu Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Gifu Prefectural Center for Health Check and Health Promotion, 4-6-2 Noisshiki, Gifu-shi, Gifu 500-8226, Japan
    • ,
  • Makoto Kawai

      Affiliations

    • Gifu Prefectural Center for Health Check and Health Promotion, 4-6-2 Noisshiki, Gifu-shi, Gifu 500-8226, Japan

Received 14 December 2005 ,Accepted 15 March 2006.

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PII: S0168-8227(06)00111-2

doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.03.010

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
Volume 74, Issue 2 , Pages 169-174 , November 2006

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