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Association Between Fasting Blood Glucose and All-Cause Mortality in a Rural Chinese Population: 15-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The worldwide prevalence of diabetes has been increasing for decades; diabetes can lead to serious health problems and even death, but the effects of maintaining low fasting blood glucose (FBG) remain controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between FBG levels and all-cause mortality in a long-term follow-up cohort and to find a relatively safe range of FBG levels.

Methods

This study included 17,902 adults from a community-based cohort study in rural China who were prospectively followed from 2003 to 2018. Generalized estimating equations were used to evaluate the association between FBG and all-cause mortality, adjusting for pertinent covariates and auto-correlations among siblings.

Results

A total of 1053 (5.9%) deaths occurred during 15 years of follow-up. There was a significant U-shaped association between all-cause mortality and FBG. Compared with the reference group (FBG of 5.6 - < 6.1 mmol/l), the risk of death among individuals with FBG levels < 5.6 mmol/l significantly increased by 38% (OR 1.34; 95% CI 1.13-1.59), while the risk of death among individuals with FBG ≥ 6.1 mmol/l or participants with a self-reported history of diabetes significantly increased by 51% (OR 1.49; 95% CI 1.20-1.85). Additionally, the U-shaped association remained steady in any stratification of risk factors.

Conclusion

Our study showed a significant U-shaped relationship between FBG levels and risk of all-cause mortality in this rural Chinese population. When FBG was within the range of 5.6 - < 6.1 mmol/l, the risk of all-cause mortality was the lowest.

SUBMITTER: Cheng N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547918 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association Between Fasting Blood Glucose and All-Cause Mortality in a Rural Chinese Population: 15-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study.

Cheng Nannan N Zhang Yue Y Yang Jie J Li Jingyi J Ye Lijing L Zhou Ziyi Z Wang Zhuo Z Liu Lishun L Song Yun Y Yang Zhibo Z She Guiping G Bai Xue X Huang Xiao X Cheng Xiaoshu X Tang Genfu G Wang Binyan B Qin Xianhui X Zalloua Pierre P Yan Fangrong F Xu Xiping X

Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders 20200925 11

<h4>Introduction</h4>The worldwide prevalence of diabetes has been increasing for decades; diabetes can lead to serious health problems and even death, but the effects of maintaining low fasting blood glucose (FBG) remain controversial. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between FBG levels and all-cause mortality in a long-term follow-up cohort and to find a relatively safe range of FBG levels.<h4>Methods</h4>This study included 17,902 adults from a community-based coh ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundWe previously reported that a median of 5.6 years of intensive as compared with standard glucose lowering in 1791 military veterans with type 2 diabetes resulted in a risk of major cardiovascular events that was significantly lower (by 17%) after a total of 10 years of combined intervention and observational follow-up. We now report the full 15-year follow-up.MethodsWe observationally followed enrolled participants (complete cohort) after the conclusion of the original clinical trial by using central databases to identify cardiovascular events, hospitalizations, and deaths. Participants were asked whether they would be willing to provide additional data by means of surveys and chart reviews (survey cohort). The prespecified primary outcome was a composite of major cardiovascular events, including nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, new or worsening congestive heart failure, amputation for ischemic gangrene, and death from cardiovascular causes. Death from any cause was a prespecified secondary outcome.ResultsThere were 1655 participants in the complete cohort and 1391 in the survey cohort. During the trial (which originally enrolled 1791 participants), the separation of the glycated hemoglobin curves between the intensive-therapy group (892 participants) and the standard-therapy group (899 participants) averaged 1.5 percentage points, and this difference declined to 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points by 3 years after the trial ended. Over a period of 15 years of follow-up (active treatment plus post-trial observation), the risks of major cardiovascular events or death were not lower in the intensive-therapy group than in the standard-therapy group (hazard ratio for primary outcome, 0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.78 to 1.06; P = 0.23; hazard ratio for death, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.88 to 1.18). The risk of major cardiovascular disease outcomes was reduced, however, during an extended interval of separation of the glycated hemoglobin curves (hazard ratio, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.70 to 0.99), but this benefit did not continue after equalization of the glycated hemoglobin levels (hazard ratio, 1.26; 95% CI, 0.90 to 1.75).ConclusionsParticipants with type 2 diabetes who had been randomly assigned to intensive glucose control for 5.6 years had a lower risk of cardiovascular events than those who received standard therapy only during the prolonged period in which the glycated hemoglobin curves were separated. There was no evidence of a legacy effect or a mortality benefit with intensive glucose control. (Funded by the VA Cooperative Studies Program; VADT ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00032487.).

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Association Between Fasting Blood Glucose and All-Cause Mortality in a Rural Chinese Population: 15-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study.

Introduction

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Association Between Fasting Blood Glucose and All-Cause Mortality in a Rural Chinese Population: 15-Year Follow-Up Cohort Study.

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