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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Diab Rep. 2021 Nov 22;21(11):47. doi: 10.1007/s11892-021-01406-3

Figure 1. Age-sex standardized incidence of type 2 diabetes by body mass index in a longitudinal study of Indigenous adults in an Indigenous study population in the Southwest U.S. Adapted from reference 28.

Figure 1.

According to a longitudinal study, obesity (as measured by body mass index) is strongly and linearly associated with incidence of diabetes and diabetes incidence is low in those with BMI < 25 kg/m2.