Open AccessTotal bilirubin is negatively related to diabetes mellitus in Chinese elderly: a community study
Author(s) -
Ping Zhong,
Dongmei Sun,
Danhong Wu,
Xueyuan Liu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of translational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-5847
pISSN - 2305-5839
DOI - 10.21037/atm.2019.07.104
Subject(s) - medicine , quartile , odds ratio , logistic regression , confidence interval , diabetes mellitus , anthropometry , cross sectional study , risk factor , gastroenterology , endocrinology , pathology
Our results showed serum TB in physiological range is an independent risk factor of DM in old people; the prevalence of DM in old people has a linear relationship with serum TB quartiles; the prevalence of DM reduces with the increasing of serum TB within physiological range.
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