Why the study?
Diabetes frequently coexists with hypertension and central obesity, but the effects of hypertension, waist-to-height ratio, and their dynamic transitions on type 2 diabetes onset among middle-aged and elderly people in China remained to be investigated.
Do hypertension, elevated waist-to-height ratio, and their transitions increase the risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults?
Do hypertension, elevated waist-to-height ratio, and their transitions increase the risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle-aged and elderly Chinese adults?
Hypertension and central obesity (elevated WHtR), as well as adverse transitions between these states, are strongly and independently associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Hypertension with elevated WHtR or adverse transitions may elevate T2DM risk in middle-aged Chinese adults; leaves open targeted prevention trials.
Background: Diabetes is a major reason of death and disability worldwide and frequently coexists with hypertension and central obesity. This study is aimed at investigating the effects of hypertension, waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and their dynamic transitions on type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) onset among middle-aged and elderly people in China. Methods: We analyzed 9843 participants free of T2DM (average age, 59.04 ± 9.26 years) at baseline from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. We classified the participants into the following four categories based on hypertension and WHtR statuses: nonhypertensive with a normal WHtR (NHNW); hypertensive with a normal WHtR (HTNW); nonhypertensive with an elevated WHtR (NHEW); and hypertensive with an elevated WHtR (HTEW). By using a Cox proportional hazards regression model, we assessed whether hypertension, WHtR, and their transitions over time correlated with T2DM risk. Results: During the follow-up of 8 years, 1263 participants developed incident T2DM. The hazard ratio (HR) for T2DM was 1.48 (95% CI: 1.12, 1.97), 1.56 (95% CI: 1.27, 1.92), and 2.15 (95% CI: 1.74, 2.67) in the HTNW, NHEW, and HTEW groups, respectively, compared with the NHNW group after controlling for confounding factors. When stratified by statuses of hypertension and WHtR transitions, the participants who transitioned from HTNW to HTEW (HR = 1.98, 95% CI: 1.24-3.17), or NHEW to NHNW/HTNW (HR = 1.74, 95% CI: 1.14-2.65), or remained NHEW (HR = 1.42, 95% CI: 1.04-1.93), or NHEW to HTEW (HR = 2.40, 95% CI: 1.66-3.49), or remained HTEW (HR = 2.51, 95% CI: 1.87-3.37) during the follow-up period showed a higher T2DM risk than the consistently NHNW participants. Conclusions: Being HTNW, NHEW or HTEW or occurring adverse transitions between those states was strongly associated with T2DM onset. Effectively warding off hypertension and central obesity or preventing their further aggravation may substantially decrease the T2DM risk.
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