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SUBMITTER: Jager S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4406732 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jäger Susanne S Jacobs Simone S Kröger Janine J Stefan Norbert N Fritsche Andreas A Weikert Cornelia C Boeing Heiner H Schulze Matthias B MB
PloS one 20150422 4
The fatty liver index (FLI) predicts fatty liver by using BMI, waist circumference, γ-glutamyltransferase and triglycerides. We investigated the association between the FLI and the risk of type 2 diabetes and evaluated to what extent single FLI components contribute to the diabetes risk. We analysed a case-cohort study (random sub-cohort: 1922; incident cases: 563) nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)-Potsdam study. The proportion of exposure effe ...[more]