Association between the depressive symptom trajectories and all-cause mortality in Chinese middle-aged and elderly adults.

Previous studies reported that depressive symptoms were associated with a high risk of all-cause mortality. However, the effect of different long-term depressive symptom trajectory patterns on the risk of all-cause mortality has not been evaluated. Our research aimed to explore the association between different depressive symptom trajectories and the risk of all-cause mortality in Chinese adults.

The relationship between proportions of carbohydrate and fat intake and hyperglycaemia risk in Chinese adults.

Objective: To address the relationship between the proportions of carbohydrates and fat and hyperglycaemia in the Chinese population.

Design: A cross-section research involving data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2009, and nutritional status and health indicators were mainly focused.

Setting: China.

Depressive symptom trajectories and new-onset arthritis in a middle-aged and elderly Chinese population.

Objective: Previous studies reported that depression was associated with a high risk of arthritis. However, the effect of different long-term depressive symptom trajectory patterns on the risk of arthritis has not been evaluated. Our study aimed to explore the association between depressive symptom trajectories and the risk of arthritis.

Cohort profile: the Liyang cohort study on chronic diseases and risk factors monitoring in China (Liyang Study).

Purpose: The Liyang cohort study on chronic diseases and risk factors monitoring in China (Liyang Study) is a prospective population-based study which aims to investigate and identify the determinants of the most prevalent chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and to evaluate the impact of demographic characteristics, lifestyle, dietary habits, cognition, disability and NCDs on the health-related quality of life.

Participants: Between March 2019 and June 2020, 10 056 individuals aged ≥18 years were administered a baseline survey through a multistage cluster random sampling in Liyang City, southern Jiangsu Province, China.

Findings To Date: The Liyang Study included detailed sociodemographic, anthropometric and health-related behaviour, common NCDs and blood sample information.

Self-rated health, socioeconomic status and all-cause mortality in Chinese middle-aged and elderly adults.

Our study aims to investigate the association between SRH and all-cause mortality, and to investigate whether the SRH-mortality association varies across different socioeconomic status (SES) groups among middle-aged and older Chinese adults. We used data from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), including 11,762 participants for the final analysis. Cox proportional hazards regression was conducted to investigate the association between SRH status and subsequent mortality.

Association between visceral adipose index and risk of hypertension in a middle-aged and elderly Chinese population.

Background And Aims: Visceral adipose index (VAI) had been widely used to predict the risks of several diseases. However, few studies have clarified the association between VAI and the risk of hypertension in Chinese population. Thus, we investigate the association between VAI and the increased risk of hypertension in a nationwide cohort of middle-aged and elderly adults in China.

Association between the proportions of carbohydrate and fat intake and hypertension risk: findings from the China Health and Nutrition Survey.

Objective: The aim of this study was to expound the dietary effects of different proportions of carbohydrate and fat on hypertension in the Chinese population.

Methods: We used data derived from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1991 to 2011. In total, 10 459 Chinese participants aged over 12 years were included in the final analysis.

Estimation of losses of quality-adjusted life expectancy attributed to the combination of cognitive impairment and multimorbidity among Chinese adults aged 45 years and older.

Objectives: This study aims to estimate the losses of quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) due to the joint effects of cognitive impairment and multimorbidity, and to further confirm additional losses attributable to this interaction among middle-aged and elderly Chinese people.

Methods: The National Cause of Death Monitoring Data were linked with the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). A mapping and assignment method was used to estimate health utility values, which were further used to calculate QALE.

Association between Dietary Quality and Prediabetes based on the Diet Balance Index.

Dietary quality is an important factor influencing prediabetes, but few studies have applied the Chinese Diet Balance Index (DBI-16) to evaluate the dietary quality of individuals with prediabetes and explore the associations between dietary quality and prediabetes. In our study, the lower-bound score, higher-bound score and diet quality distance, were respectively calculated to assess dietary quality based on each food group. Logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (95%CI) of unfavorable dietary quality leading to prediabetes in every subgroup.