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The temporal relationship between poor lung function and the risk of diabetes

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Title
The temporal relationship between poor lung function and the risk of diabetes
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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12890-016-0227-z
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Suneela Zaigham, Peter M. Nilsson, Per Wollmer, Gunnar Engström

Abstract

The association between impaired lung function and diabetes risk has been established in the past, however the temporal and causal relationships between the two remain unclear. We assessed the relationship between baseline FEV1 and FVC and risk of incident diabetes at different time intervals for participants in the Malmö Preventive Project cohort. Baseline lung function was assessed in 20,295 men and 7416 women during 1974-1992; mean age 43.4 ± 6.6 and 47.6 ± 7.8, respectively. Sex-specific quartiles of FEV1%predicted and FVC%predicted were created (Q4 = highest; reference). Follow-up time was divided into 10-year time intervals from baseline examination. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to assess the incidence of diabetes according to quartiles of FEV1 and FVC%predicted, after adjustments for baseline glucose and potential confounding factors. Over 37-years' follow-up there were 3753 and 993 incident diabetes events in men and women, respectively. When comparing FEV1%predicted in men (Q1 vs. Q4), the HR for diabetes was 1.64 (1.21-2.22) for events <10 years after baseline, 1.52 (1.27-1.81) for events 10-20 years after baseline, 1.39 (1.22-1.59) for events 20-30 years after baseline, and 1.46 (1.08-1.97) for events occurring >30 years after baseline. A broadly similar pattern was seen for FVC%predicted and for women. Low FEV1 precedes and significantly predicts future diabetes. This risk is still significant many years after the baseline FEV1 measurement in middle-aged men. These results suggest that there is a relationship between impaired lung function and diabetes risk beyond the effects of hyperglycemia on lung function.

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Unknown 28 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Librarian 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Other 8 29%
Unknown 6 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 43%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Unspecified 1 4%
Unknown 10 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 May 2016.
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#13,980,964
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Outputs from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#803
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#158,858
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Pulmonary Medicine
#16
of 41 outputs
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