Criteria for screening diabetes mellitus using serum fructosamine level and fasting plasma glucose level. The Japanese Society of Multiphasic Health Testing and Services (JMHT), Fructosamine Working Committee.

A screening method using serum fructosamine level and the fasting plasma glucose level was used for screening patients with diabetes mellitus. The criteria for positive tests recommended by the Japanese Society of Multiphasic Health Testing and Services were evaluated. It was found that levels for the serum fructosamine of 290 mumol/l or higher (or, for the fasting plasma glucose of 110 mg/dl or higher) agreed with the standard oral glucose tolerance test in identifying patients with diabetes mellitus in 96.7% of cases, and the serum fructosamine test was simpler and less expensive.

The significance of the ratio of body weight/height as a practical obesity index and the changes in the values in Japanese adults.

1. It was observed that the W/H ratio highly correlated with body weight, while it had low correlation with age and height. From this fact, the W/H ratio was considered to have a practical value as an index from which adult obesity can be more easily judged than from BMI. 2. The W/H ratios of Japanese adults continue to increase in men of all age groups and women in the 50 or older age groups. That is, people tend towards obesity with age. Thus this fact may be associated with the increase in incidence of adult diseases in Japan.