Associations of blood glucose and prevalent diabetes with risk of cardiovascular disease in 500 000 adult Chinese: the China Kadoorie Biobank

ConclusionsIn the present adult Chinese population, self‐reported diabetes was associated with a doubling of the odds of prevalent cardiovascular disease. Below the threshold for diabetes there was still a modest, positive association between random blood glucose and prevalent cardiovascular disease.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Diabetic Medicine - December 17, 2013 Category: Endocrinology Authors: F. Bragg, L. Li, M. Smith, Y. Guo, Y. Chen, I. Millwood, Z. Bian, R. Walters, J. Chen, L. Yang, R. Collins, R. Peto, Y. Lu, B. Yu, X. Xie, Y. Lei, G. Luo, Z. Chen, Tags: Research Article Source Type: research