title: Prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in a rural area of Japan. The Funagata diabetes study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired sucrose tolerance (IGT) among people aged 40 and over in a rural area, Funagata, Japan, by using a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), and to compare the prevalence to that obtained from a more urban area, Hisayama, Japan.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Total eligible subjects for the Funagata study were 3526. Among them, 140 were confirmed to have diabetes judged by the 1985 WHO criteria. A 75-g OGTT was conducted, excluding the 140 known cases of diabetes. The 1985 WHO criteria were used to classify the current diabetes status of participants. The overall participation rate was 74.4%. The prevalence of diabetes (known and newly diagnosed cases combined) was 9.1% for men and 10.8% for women. The prevalence of IGT was 12. 0% for men and 16.5% for women. Age-adjusted prevalence (using 1990 Japanese census) of diabetes and IGT in men in Hisayama is two times higher than in Funagata (12.8% vs. 6.8% for diabetes, 19.5% vs. 10. 3% for IGT). Age-adjusted prevalence of IGT in women in Hisayama is significantly higher than in Funagata.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among people aged 40 and over is approximately 10% even in a rural area of Japan. Prevalence of diabetes and IGT is much higher in an urban area than in a rural area in Japan.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Japan. akira@imap.pitt.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sekikawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tominaga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Manaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fukuyama
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kiyohara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fujishima
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D018149:Glucose Intolerance / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005951:Glucose Tolerance Test; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012737:Sex Factors