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Incident Type 2 Diabetes Risk is Influenced by Obesity and Diabetes in Social Contacts: a Social Network Analysis.
Journal of general internal medicine - 1 Oct 2016
Raghavan Sridharan, Pachucki Mark C, Chang Yuchiao, Porneala Bianca, Fox Caroline S, Dupuis Josée, Meigs James B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Obesity and diabetes family history are the two strongest risk factors for type 2 diabetes (T2D). Prior work shows that an individual's obesity risk is associated with obesity in social contacts, but whether T2D risk follows similar patterns is unknown. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to estimate the relationship between obesity or diabetes in an individual's social contacts and his/her T2D risk. We hypothesized...
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