Key result
Hypertension, high cholesterol, difficulty walking, and heart disease are strongly linked to diabetes.
Why the study?
Although diabetes is known to be associated with genetic inheritance, overweight conditions, and dietary habits, other contributing factors remain unknown.
What factors are associated with the onset of diabetes in individuals from the BRFSS 2015 dataset?
Observational (n=253,680)
What factors are associated with the onset of diabetes in individuals from the BRFSS 2015 dataset?
p-value: p=<0.001
This study identifies several factors, including mental health and difficulty walking, that are strongly associated with the onset of diabetes, providing new ideas for studying its pathogenesis.
These associations should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for cardiovascular and lifestyle diabetes risk factors.
Although prior research has indicated that the occurrence of diabetes is associated with genetic inheritance, overweight conditions and dietary habits, there are still many other unknown factors worth studying. This research employed the Probit model approach to handle the data from the BRFSS 2015 dataset on Kaggle. The dataset was published and updated in 2021 and encompassed information on 253,680 individuals. The conclusion is that the onset of diabetes is strongly associated with Sex, Age, BMI, Physical activity, Eating habits, Smoking, Mental health and stroke, and is particularly closely related to Difficulty walking, Heart disease, High cholesterol, and High blood pressure. Many factors that may be closely associated with diabetes have not been found in prior studies, such as Mental health, Difficulty walking, Heart disease, High cholesterol, and High blood pressure. This provides some new ideas for studying the pathogenesis of diabetes and the treatment of diabetes, and points the way for future research.
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Rubin Li (2024) conducted an observational in Diabetes (n=253,680). Risk factors (including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and difficulty walking) vs. Absence of respective risk factors was evaluated on Presence of diabetes (p=<0.001). High blood pressure, high cholesterol, difficulty walking, and heart disease were identified as the strongest risk factors associated with the presence of diabetes in a multivariate probit model.
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