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RE: "CHANGES IN BODY WEIGHT AND BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION AS RISK FACTORS FOR CLINICAL DIABETES IN US MEN"
1 Department of Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2 Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, VU University Medical Center, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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We read with great interest the paper recently published in the Journal by Koh-Banerjee et al. (1), who prospectively studied the relations between changes in body weight and body fat distribution (19861996) and subsequent risk of diabetes mellitus (19962000) among 22,171 Caucasian men. Weight gain was associated with increased
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