Diabetes in Japan.
In this article, we introduce the increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the Japanese population and discuss the reasons for such an explosive increase. Diabetes has been brought into prominence in Japan by enhanced insulin resistance, through the change of lifestyle against the background of fragile beta-cell function and thrifty genotypes.
Hirose
Takahisa
T
Department of Medicine, Metabolism and Endocrinology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
Kawamori
Ryuzo
R
D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007515:Islets of Langerhans / Q000503:physiopathology; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008019:Life Style; D015995:Prevalence