Central Obesity and Disease Risk in Japanese Americans

Fujimoto, Wilfred Y.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 5R01HL049293-04
• Application #: 2225428
• Study Section: Epidemiology and Disease Control Subcommittee 2 (EDC)
• Project Start: 1993-02-12
• Project End: 1998-01-31
• Budget Start: 1996-02-01
• Budget End: 1998-01-31
• Support Year: 4
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: University of Washington
• Department: Internal Medicine/Medicine
• Type: Schools of Medicine
• DUNS #: 135646524
• City: Seattle
• State: WA
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 98195

Publications

Han, Seung Jin; Boyko, Edward J; Kim, Soo Kyung et al. (2018) Association of Thigh Muscle Mass with Insulin Resistance and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Japanese Americans. Diabetes Metab J 42:488-495

Wander, Pandora L; Hayashi, Tomoshige; Sato, Kyoko Kogawa et al. (2018) Design and validation of a novel estimator of visceral adipose tissue area and comparison to existing adiposity surrogates. J Diabetes Complications 32:1062-1067

Han, Seung Jin; Fujimoto, Wilfred Y; Kahn, Steven E et al. (2018) Change in visceral adiposity is an independent predictor of future arterial pulse pressure. J Hypertens 36:299-305

Han, Seung Jin; Kim, Soo-Kyung; Fujimoto, Wilfred Y et al. (2017) Effects of combination of change in visceral fat and thigh muscle mass on the development of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 134:131-138

Lee, Crystal Man Ying; Woodward, Mark; Pandeya, Nirmala et al. (2017) Comparison of relationships between four common anthropometric measures and incident diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 132:36-44

Han, Seung Jin; Boyko, Edward J; Fujimoto, Wilfred Y et al. (2017) Low Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations Predict Increases in Visceral Adiposity and Insulin Resistance. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 102:4626-4633

Kocarnik, Beverly M; Boyko, Edward J; Matsumoto, Alvin M et al. (2016) Baseline estradiol concentration in community-dwelling Japanese American men is not associated with intra-abdominal fat accumulation over 10 years. Obes Res Clin Pract 10:624-632

Sullivan, Catherine A; Kahn, Steven E; Fujimoto, Wilfred Y et al. (2015) Change in Intra-Abdominal Fat Predicts the Risk of Hypertension in Japanese Americans. Hypertension 66:134-40

Hwang, Y-C; Hayashi, T; Fujimoto, W Y et al. (2015) Visceral abdominal fat accumulation predicts the conversion of metabolically healthy obese subjects to an unhealthy phenotype. Int J Obes (Lond) 39:1365-70

Araneta, Maria Rosario G; Kanaya, Alka M; Hsu, William C et al. (2015) Optimum BMI cut points to screen asian americans for type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care 38:814-20