Associations between long-term exposure to ambient particulate air pollution and type 2 diabetes prevalence, blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The evidence for an association between particulate air pollution and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in developing countries was very scarce.

Objective

To investigate the associations of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) with T2DM prevalence and with fasting glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in China.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study based on a nation-wide baseline survey of 11,847 adults who participated in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study from June 2011 to March 2012. The average residential exposure to PM2.5 for each participant in the same period was estimated using a satellite-based spatial statistical model. We determined the association between PM2.5 and T2DM prevalence by multivariable l

SUBMITTER: Liu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4902714 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature