Multilevel examination of diabetes in modernising China: What elements of urbanisation are most associated with diabetes?

Diabetologia

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3182-3192

  Attard, S M ^a   Herring, A H ^b   Mayer Davis, E J ^a,c   Popkin, B M ^a   Meigs, J B ^d   Gordon Larsen, P ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Modernisation; Multilevel analysis; Nutrition transition; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84868207575     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2697-8     Document Type: Article

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