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Tracking blood glucose and predicting prediabetes in Chinese children and adolescents: a prospective twin study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Wang Guoying, Arguelles Lester, Liu Rong, Zhang Shanchun, Brickman Wendy J, Hong Xiumei, Tsai Hui-Ju, Wang Binyan, Xing Houxun, Li Zhiping, Xu Xiping, Wang Xiaobin
Abstract excerpt
We examined the tracking of blood glucose, the development of prediabetes, and estimated their genetic contributions in a prospective, healthy, rural Chinese twin cohort. This report includes 1,766 subjects (998 males, 768 females) aged 6-21 years at baseline who completed a 6-year follow-up study. Oral glucose tolerance test was performed for all subjects at both baseline and follow-up. We found that subjects...
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