TY - JOUR AU - Goto, Atsushi AU - Morita, Akemi AU - Goto, Maki AU - Sasaki, Satoshi AU - Miyachi, Motohiko AU - Aiba, Naomi AU - Terauchi, Yasuo AU - Noda, Mitsuhiko AU - Watanabe, Shaw AU - the Saku Cohort Study Group PY - 2012 DA - 2012/10/16 TI - Associations of sex hormone-binding globulin and testosterone with diabetes among men and women (the Saku Diabetes study): a case control study JO - Cardiovascular Diabetology SP - 130 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and sex hormones have been implicated in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. As fatty liver has been suggested to be a major determinant of SHBG levels, we examined whether the associations of SHBG and testosterone with diabetes were independent of fatty liver. SN - 1475-2840 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2840-11-130 DO - 10.1186/1475-2840-11-130 ID - Goto2012 ER -