Tracking Blood Glucose and Predicting Prediabetes in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Twin Study

Guoying Wang; Lester Arguelles; Rong Liu; Shanchun Zhang; Wendy J. Brickman; Xiumei Hong; Hui-Ju Tsai; Binyan Wang; Houxun Xing; Zhiping Li; Xiping Xu; Xiaobin Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028573

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Tracking Blood Glucose and Predicting Prediabetes in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Twin Study

Guoying Wang,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Lester Arguelles,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Rong Liu,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Shanchun Zhang,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Wendy J. Brickman,

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Xiumei Hong,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Hui-Ju Tsai,

Affiliations The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan
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Binyan Wang,

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Houxun Xing,

Affiliation The Institute for Biomedicine, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, China
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Zhiping Li,

Affiliation The Institute for Biomedicine, Anhui Medical University, Heifei, China
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Xiping Xu,

Affiliation Center for Population Genetics of Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Xiaobin Wang

* E-mail: xbwang@childrensmemorial.org

Affiliation The Mary Ann and J Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Tracking Blood Glucose and Predicting Prediabetes in Chinese Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Twin Study

Guoying Wang,
Lester Arguelles,
Rong Liu,
Shanchun Zhang,
Wendy J. Brickman,
Xiumei Hong,
Hui-Ju Tsai,
Binyan Wang,
Houxun Xing,
Zhiping Li

Published: December 7, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028573

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