Susceptibility of prediabetes to the health effect of air pollution: a community-based panel study with a nested case-control design

• Main Authors: Yiqun Han (Author), Yanwen Wang (Author), Weiju Li (Author), Xi Chen (Author), Tao Xue (Author), Wu Chen (Author), Yunfei Fan (Author), Xinghua Qiu (Author), Tong Zhu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Recent studies suggest that people with diabetes or who are at risk of developing diabetes, i.e. prediabetic (preDM), are potentially susceptible to air pollution, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear because the existing epidemiological studies did not include healthy co...