The Association Between Race/Ethnicity and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women Varies by BMI: A Pooled Analysis of Individual Data From 15 Cohort Studies
South/Southeast Asian women have a markedly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, further amplified by modestly higher BMI, highlighting the need for ethnicity-specific diabetes prevention strategies for women.
Authors
- Monique M. Hedderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1768-0412)
- Kazue Nagai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2562-2127)
- Sven Sandin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6994-4884)
- Yuki Ideno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-7780)
- Panayotes Demakakos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7663-2122)
- Eric J. Brunner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-4474)
- Hsin‐Fang Chung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3261-5942)
- Nancy Fúgate Woods (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8396-3467)
- Rebecca Hardy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9949-0799)
- Yvonne T. van der Schouw (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4605-435X)
- Sophie V. Eastwood (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1883-8771)
- Gita D. Mishra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9610-5904)
- Debra Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8996-9624)
- Samar R. El Khoudary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2913-0821)
- Elisabete Weiderpass (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-0128)
- Annette J. Dobson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-0124)
- Kunihiko Hayashi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4648-3936)
- Ellen Sullivan Mitchell
Institutions
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Queensland Health (AU)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Loughborough University (GB)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Gunma University (JP)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Loughborough College (GB)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
- Juntendo University (JP)
- Neurobehavioral Systems (US)
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (GB)
- Australian e-Health Research Centre (AU)
- Centre international de recherche sur le cancer (FR)
- University College London (GB)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Diabetes Care
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2337/dc25-1478
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.29