Is femur length the key height component in risk prediction of type 2 diabetes among adults? Diabetes Care 32

OBJECTIVE — To examine the diabetes risk association with femur length, standing height, and height without femur length (HWFL) (HWFL standing height femur length). RESEARCHDESIGNANDMETHODS — We used data from three time periods of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999–2000, 2001–2002, and 2003–2004) for this cross-sectional analysis and confined the eligible subjects to 6,188 adults aged 20 years who had fasted8 h and had no missing values of femur length or standing height. The outcome measure was type 2 diabetes. RESULTS — Multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that the odds of type 2 diabe-tes per 1-SD value increase in femur length, standing height, and HWFL were 0.73 (95 % CI 0.61–0.86), 0.91 (0.75–1.10), and 1.09 (0.90–1.32) for men, respectively, and 0.82 (0.70– 0.97), 0.99 (0.82–1.21), and 1.11 (0.93–1.33) for women. CONCLUSIONS — Our study supports the hypothesis that femur length may be the key height component in diabetes risk association. Diabetes Care 32:739–740, 2009 Anumber of studies have observedthat adult height is negatively asso-ciated with the risk of glucose intol