Guang Wei Li

TL;DR: Diet and/or exercise interventions led to a significant decrease in the incidence of diabetes over a 6-year period among those with IGT, and thereby reduce the overall incidence of diabetic complications.

TL;DR: The prevalence of diabetes in China is increasing with economic development and changes from traditional to modernized lifestyle, especially where people had lower level of education and socioeconomic development, and increased knowledge of risk factors for diabetes may help to prevent a further rapid increase in the prevalence.

TL;DR: Small increases in BMI, and particularly in waist circumference, predict a substantial increase in the risk of diabetes and risk for CHD, especially hypertension, in Chinese adults.

TL;DR: Fasting plasma insulin at 5 years of age predicts weight gain and cardiovascular risk factors 5 year later in Chinese children of early childhood, but the absolute weight at 5years of age did not predict subsequent change in fasting insulin.

TL;DR: It is postulate that GG genotype is protective against excessive weight gain, and factors which predispose to excessive weight Gain such as higher birth weights may ameliorate the effect.