Low birth weight and high birth infants are both at an increased risk to have type 2 diabetes among schoolchildren in Taiwan
Low birth weight and high birth infants are both at an increased risk to have type 2 diabetes among schoolchildren in Taiwan
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DOI:
10.2337/diacare.26.2.343
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发表时间:
2003-02-01
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影响因子:
16.2
通讯作者:
Chuang, LM
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作者:
Wei, JN;Sung, FC;Chuang, LM
OBJECTIVE - To study the effect of birth weight on risk of type 2 diabetes in the schoolchildren in Taiwan.RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS - From 1992 to 1997, all schoolchildren aged 6-18 years were screened for diabetes in Taiwan Province. This cohort consisted of 1,966 patients with diabetes and 1,780 randomly selected subjects with normal fasting glycemia (NFG). Questionnaire interviewing was designed to classify diabetes. The birth weight was obtained from the Taiwan's Birth Registry. After merging the data, there were 978 subjects, including 429 with type 2 diabetes and 549 with of NFG enrolled in the present analyses.RESULTS - The odds ratios (95% CI) for type 2 diabetes, after adjusting age, sex, BMI, family history of diabetes, and socioeconomic status, were 2.91 (1.25-6.76) for children with low birth weight (