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Cuilin Zhang

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  317
Citations -  18021

Cuilin Zhang is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gestational diabetes & Pregnancy. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 271 publications receiving 14401 citations. Previous affiliations of Cuilin Zhang include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard University.

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Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes and Risk of Progression to Type 2 Diabetes: a Global Perspective.

TL;DR: This work comprehensively reviewed available data in the past decade in an attempt to estimate the contemporary global prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus by country and region and the risk of progression from GDM to T2DM.
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Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of All-Cause, Cardiovascular, and Cancer Mortality Sixteen Years of Follow-Up in US Women

TL;DR: Anthropometric measures of abdominal adiposity were strongly and positively associated with all-cause, CVD, and cancer mortality independently of body mass index and potential confounders.
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Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

Cecilia M. Lindgren, +155 more
- 01 Jun 2009 - 
TL;DR: By focusing on anthropometric measures of central obesity and fat distribution, a meta-analysis of 16 genome-wide association studies informative for adult waist circumference and waist–hip ratio identified three loci implicated in the regulation of human adiposity.
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Gestational diabetes mellitus.

TL;DR: Gestational diabetes mellitus is the most common complication in pregnancy and has short-term and long-term effects in both mother and offspring, and dietary modification and increased physical activity are the primary treatments, but pharmacotherapy, usually insulin, is used when normoglycaemia is not achieved.
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Circulating 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies

TL;DR: A generally linear, inverse association between circulating 25(OH)-vitamin D ranging from 20 to 60 nmol/L and risk of CVD was demonstrated and remained strong and significant when analyses were limited to studies that excluded participants with baseline CVD and were better controlled for season and confounding.