marginally significantp=0.06
In middle-aged Japanese women without diabetes, association between AT-IR and obesity and prediabetes, although marginally significant (p=0.06), was confirmed as previously reported in adolescents, 12 15 middle-aged and elderly people with obesity. 10 13 14 16 AT-IR also showed positive associations with a broad range of cardiometabolic risk factors, including all diagnostic components of metabolic syndrome.