Lower fasting plasma glucose criteria and high triglycerides are effective for screening diabetes mellitus in the rural Japanese population: the Tottori-Kofu Study

Tsuyoshi Ohkura

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: original concept

position: Assistant lecturer

Japan

Clinical lecturer, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University. My research interests are diabetes, rural preventive medicine. Our research field is Kofu Town, Tottori prefecture, Japan, where is agricultural and mountainous area. Kofu town is near to the very beautiful mountain "Mt. Daisen" which called "Mt Fuji in Tottori".

Shin-ichi Taniguchi

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: designed the project

position: Professor

Japan

medical education, health promotion, diabetes

Yoneatsu Osaki

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: supervised data collection

position: Associate Professor

Naoya Yamamoto

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Keisuke Sumi

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Youhei Fujioka

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Kazuhiko Matsuzawa

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Shoichiro Izawa

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Hideki Shiochi

qualifications: MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Hiroshi Kinoshita

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Kazuoki Inoue

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: collected data

position: Staff doctor

Mikio Takechi

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: supplied data

position: Chief of staff

Takuji Kishimoto

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: literature review

position: Professor

Chiaki Shigemasa

qualifications: PhD, MD

contribution: literature review

position: Professor