Prevalence and Ethnic Pattern of Diabetes and Prediabetes in China in 2013

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Authors

Limin Wang · National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

Pei Gao · Peking University

Mei Zhang · National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

Zhengjing Huang · National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

Dudan Zhang · Peking University

Qian Deng · National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

Abstract

Among adults in China, the estimated overall prevalence of diabetes was 10.9%, and that for prediabetes was 35.7%. Differences from previous estimates for 2010 may be due to an alternate method of measuring hemoglobin A1c.

Topics & Keywords

High Altitude and Hypoxia Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA

Volume 317, Issue 24, pp. 2515-2515

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.7596

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