A prospective study of impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes in China: The Kailuan study.

ABSTRACT: The worldwide prevalence and incidence of diabetes and obesity are increasing in pandemic proportions. This is particularly relevant for China, where an extremely large population is growing, aging, and urbanizing. We thus conducted a prospective study to examine the prevalence and incidence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and diabetes, the rate at which fasting blood glucose rises, and the major modifiable risk factors associated with these outcomes in a large Chinese population from the Kailuan prospective study.A prospective cohort included 100,279 Chinese participants, aged 18 years or more, who had available information on fasting blood glucose concentrations at the start of the study (2006). Examination surveys were conducted every 2 years in 2008 and 2010. For the analyses of inci

SUBMITTER: Vaidya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5120921 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature