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%) death

SUBMITTER: Cheng N 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature