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    Age at menarche and risk of type 2 diabetes among African-American and white women in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study

    We examined race differences in the association between age at menarche and type 2 diabetes before and after adjustment for adiposity.

    J. G. Dreyfus, P. L. Lutsey, R. Huxley, J. S. Pankow, E. Selvin in Diabetologia (2012)

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    Body mass index, waist circumference and waist:hip ratio as predictors of cardiovascular risk—a review of the literature

    Overweight and obesity have become a major public health problem in both develo** and developed countries as they are causally related to a wide spectrum of chronic diseases including type II diabetes, cardi...

    R Huxley, S Mendis, E Zheleznyakov, S Reddy in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2010)

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    Obesity and overweight in relation to liver disease mortality in men: 38 year follow-up of the original Whitehall study

    Obesity has been implicated in the aetiology of liver disease. However, to date, evidence is largely drawn from cross-sectional studies, where interpretation is hampered by reverse causality, and from studies ...

    G D Batty, M J Shipley, M Kivimaki, F Barzi in International Journal of Obesity (2008)