Prevalence, trends and risk factors for the diabetes epidemic in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Diabetes Research and Clinical PracticePublished 8 January 2014
Hui Zuo, Zumin Shi, Akhtar Hussain
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The prevalence of diabetes is different in different parts of China but it has been increasing sharply during the last three decades, and traditional risk factors such as age, family history of diabetes, obesity, hypertension and elevated triglycerides were found to be associated with diabetes.
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Based on the meta-analyses, we found that the prevalence of diabetes is different in different parts of China but it has been increasing sharply during the last three decades. Some risk factors were quantitatively derived in the study, which are free from the diversity of a single sample.
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