Remnant Cholesterol is an Independent Predictor of New-Onset Diabetes: A Single-Center Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Remnant cholesterol (RC) is the cholesterol of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, which has a high degree of atherogenic effect. To date, epidemiological evidence supports that higher RC levels lead to a greater risk of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes, but the nature of the association between RC levels and diabetes risk remains unclear. This study was designed to assess the association of RC with the risk of new-onset diabetes and to investigate whether there is a causal relationship between the two.

Patients and methods

The subjects included 15,464 individuals of the general population who participated in a health examination. Subjects were quartered according to the RC quartile, and the Cox proportional hazard model was used to assess the inde

SUBMITTER: Xie G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8652915 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature