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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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AUSDRISK: an Australian Type 2 Diabetes Risk Assessment Tool based on demographic, lifestyle and simple anthropometric measures.
Lei Chen,Dianna J. Magliano,Beverley Balkau,Beverley Balkau,Stephen Colagiuri,Paul Zimmet,Andrew Tonkin,Paul Mitchell,Patrick P. J. Phillips,Jonathan E. Shaw +9 more
TL;DR: The objective is to develop and validate a diabetes risk assessment tool for Australia based on demographic, lifestyle and simple anthropometric measures.
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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
Kun-san Xiang,Yanqing Wang,Taishan Zheng,Weiping Jia,Jie Li,Lei Chen,Kunxue Shen,Song-hua Wu,Xin Lin,Guodong Zhang,Congrong Wang,Suijun Wang,Huijuan Lu,Qichen Fang,Yi Shi,Rong Zhang,Jing Xu,Qin Weng +17 more
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
Yunjuan Gu,Chunfang Wang,Ying Zheng,Xuhong Hou,Yifei Mo,Weihui Yu,Lei Zhang,Cheng Hu,H Nan,Lei Chen,Jie Li,Yu-xiang Liu,Zhezhou Huang,Ming Han,Yuqian Bao,Weijian Zhong,Weiping Jia +16 more
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.