title: Association of Change of Anthropometric Measurements With Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Pooled Analysis of the Prospective Population-Based CARLA and SHIP Cohort Studies.
abstract: Our objective was to investigate the association of change of anthropometric measurements and the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) within a pooled sample of 2 population-based cohorts.A final sample of 1324 women and 1278 men aged 31 to 83 years from 2 prospective cohorts in Germany, the CARLA (Cardiovascular Disease - Living and Ageing in Halle) and the SHIP study (Study of Health in Pomerania), were pooled. The association of change of body weight and waist circumference (WC) with incidence of T2DM was assessed by calculating sex-specific hazard ratios (HRs). We investigated the absolute change of markers of obesity as well as change relative to the baseline value and estimated crude and adjusted HRs. Furthermore, we conducted the analyses stratified by obesity status and age (<60 vs ≥60 years) at baseline.Associations were found for both change of body weight and WC and incidence of T2DM in the crude and adjusted analyses. In the stratified study sample, those participants with a body mass index of <30 kg/m at baseline showed considerably lower HRs compared with obese women and men for both weight and WC. In the age-stratified analysis, we still found associations between change of weight and WC and incident T2DM with only marginal differences between the age groups.Our study showed associations of change of weight and WC as markers of obesity with incidence of T2DM. Keeping a healthy and primarily stable weight should be the goal for preventing the development of T2DM.
authors: From the Institute of Medical Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Informatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) (SH, KHG, DM, DT, BH, JH, AK); Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg (KHG); Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald (SS, TI, HV); and Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany (GM).
authors: Saskia
authors: S
authors: Hartwig
authors: Karin Halina
authors: KH
authors: Greiser
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Medenwald
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Tiller
authors: Beatrice
authors: B
authors: Herzog
authors: Sabine
authors: S
authors: Schipf
authors: Till
authors: T
authors: Ittermann
authors: Henry
authors: H
authors: Völzke
authors: Grit
authors: G
authors: Müller
authors: Johannes
authors: J
authors: Haerting
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Kluttig
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D055105:Waist Circumference