Why the study?
Existing large epidemiological studies on diabetes are mainly from North America and Europe, leaving a lack of population-based representative data in Asia.
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Fills Asian diabetes data gap; leaves open generalizability beyond Hong Kong.
Diabetes has become one of the most challenging health problems, which affects around 1 in 10 adults worldwide. The last three decades have witnessed a significant change in the global epidemiological patterns of diabetes. However, the existing large epidemiological studies are mainly from North America and Europe. Populationbased representative data are lacking in Asia,
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Wu et al. (2021) studied this question.
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