Sedentary behavior mediates the association between weight-adjusted waist index and cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes

• Zhihui Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

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• Min Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

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• Peng Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Zhihui Li, Min Wu, Peng Wang

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

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• Wei Xie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Hypoxic Translational Medicine, Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

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• Yunqi Hua,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, Baotou Cancer Hospital, Baotou, China

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• Guo Shao ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhwyjs@163.com (HZ); shao.guo.china@gmail.com (GS)

  ¶‡ GS and HZ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine, the Third People’s Hospital of Longgang District, Shenzhen, China

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• Hongwei Zhu

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zhwyjs@163.com (HZ); shao.guo.china@gmail.com (GS)

  ¶‡ GS and HZ also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Inner Mongolia, Baotou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8878-4974

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