Excessive weight gain onset-age and risk of developing diabetes mellitus: a large, prospective Chinese cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Excessive weight gain and obesity are widely accepted as risk factors for diabetes mellitus, and the age at which obesity onsets may be related to the development of cardiovascular diseases and certain cancers. Here, we aimed to investigate associations between the onset-age of overweight/obesity and risk of developing diabetes mellitus in China.

Methods

42,144 people with the normal weight range and without diabetes at baseline, were enrolled from the Kailuan cohort which began on the 1^st June 2006. All participants were followed-up, biennially, until 31^st December 2017. During follow-up, 11,220 participants had become overweight/obese. For each case, one normal-weight control was matched according to age ( ± 1 year) and sex. Our final analy

SUBMITTER: Fang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10711082 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature