Fasting blood glucose and risk of incident pancreatic cancer

Young Jin Kim, Chang-Mo Oh, Sung Keun Park, Ju Young Jung, Min-Ho Kim, Eunhee Ha, Do Jin Nam, Yeji Kim, Eun Hye Yang, Hyo Choon Lee, Soon Su Shin and Jae-Hong Ryoo

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 10, 1-9

Abstract: Background: The number of patients with diabetes and impaired fasting blood glucose in Korea is rapidly increasing compared to the past, and other metabolic indicators of population are also changed in recent years. To clarify the mechanism more clearly, we investigated the association between fasting blood glucose and incidence of pancreatic cancer in this retrospective cohort study. Methods: In Korea National Health Information Database, 19,050 participants without pancreatic cancer in 2009 were enrolled, and followed up until 2013. We assessed the risk of incident pancreatic cancer according to the quartile groups of fasting blood glucose level (quartile 1:

Date: 2022
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