Journal article
Parenthood and the risk of diabetes in men and women: a 7- year prospective study of 0.5 million individuals
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Aims/hypothesis
In women, higher parity has been associated with increased risk of diabetes later in life. It is unclear, however, whether this association is mainly due to biological effects of childbearing, or to socioeconomic and lifestyle factors associated with childrearing. We assessed the association between number of children and diabetes risk separately in women and men.
Methods
Between 2004 and 2008, the nationwide China Kadoorie Biobank recruited 0.5 mi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Cancer Research UK
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Medical Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Diabetologia Journal website
- Volume:
- 59
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- 1675–1682
- Publication date:
- 2016-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0012-186X
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- Copyright holder:
- Yang et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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