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Lei Chen

Researcher at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute

Publications -  49
Citations -  3002

Lei Chen is an academic researcher from Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diabetes mellitus & Population. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2525 citations. Previous affiliations of Lei Chen include Australian Catholic University & Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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The worldwide epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus--present and future perspectives

TL;DR: The causes of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and prediabetes are embedded in a very complex group of genetic and epigenetic systems interacting within an equally complex societal framework that determines behavior and environmental influences as mentioned in this paper.
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Genome-wide search for type 2 diabetes/impaired glucose homeostasis susceptibility genes in the Chinese: Significant linkage to chromosome 6q21-q23 and chromosome 1q21-q24

TL;DR: The independent replication of the region on chromosome 1q that has been shown to be linked significantly to type 2 diabetes/IGH in Chinese supports the notion that gene(s) in this region may be universally important in the development of human type 1 diabetes.
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Prediction of Abdominal Visceral Obesity From Body Mass Index,Waist Circumference and Waist-hip Ratio in Chinese Adults:Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves Analysis

TL;DR: Measurements of BMI, WC, and WHR can be used in the prediction of abdominal visceral obesity, of which WC was the one with better accuracy.
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Cancer incidence and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with human insulin: A cohort study in Shanghai

TL;DR: There was no excess risk of overall cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes who were treated with human insulin, however, a significantly higher risk of liver cancer was found in these patients, and insulin users showed higher risks of overall and cancer mortality.