Epidemiological study on insulin tolerance and metabolic syndrome

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In this epidemiological study on metabolic syndrome (MS), we focused on insulin tolerance and obesity which are major cause of MS, and fatty liver which is related disease of MS.We reported that without obesity, prevalence of fatty liver increased with the number of component of MS, that insulin tolerance did not add important information on MS if we had the information on obesity, and that BMI and waist circumference were not able to distinguish the visceral obesity from the subcutaneous obesity.