Publications by authors named "Enqiang Feng"

Background And Objectives: To explore the risk factors for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and to establish a non-invasive tool for the screening of NAFLD in an older adult population.

Methods And Study Design: A total of 131,161 participants were included in this cross-sectional study. Participants were randomly divided into training and validation sets (7:3).

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Background And Aims: Combined associations of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and hemoglobin (Hb) with metabolic syndrome (MetS) have not been assessed yet. The current study investigated the independent and combined relationships between ALT, Hb, and MetS in the elderly.

Methods: The 37,966 elderly participants aged 65 years and older were recruited from community centers in Qingdao, China.

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Background And Objectives: To identify the main dietary patterns of adults and investigate the cross-sectional associations of these dietary patterns with prediabetes and undiagnosed or diagnosed diabetes mellitus (DM) in Qingdao, China.

Methods And Study Design: This study included 4,457 participants who were administered the semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). Dietary patterns were identified through principal component analysis (PCA).

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