New research award for air pollution project
Mar 1, 2017 12:00 AM
China Kadoorie Biobank Study receives MRC GCRF foundation research grant to study major health effects of household and ambient air pollution in China.
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JAMA: Chinese adults with diabetes lose nine years of life
Jan 17, 2017 4:00 PM
In China, people with diabetes diagnosed in middle age lose, on average, nine years of life, according to new research published in the January 17 issue of JAMA. This is mainly due to inadequate treatment, particularly in rural areas.
New funding award to investigate pancreatic cancer
Oct 1, 2016 12:00 AM
Funding has been secured from the Pancreatic Cancer UK - Research Innovation Fund to assist in the development of a blood test for the early detection of pancreatic cancer.
Evaluation of type 2 diabetes risk variants published in Diabetologia
Apr 14, 2016 3:05 PM
The individual and cumulative effects of 59 established type 2 diabetes risk loci were measured and assessed in 93,000 CKB participants.
Fresh fruit associated with lower risk of heart attack and stroke
Apr 6, 2016 10:00 PM
People who eat fresh fruit on most days are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than people who rarely eat fresh fruit, according to new CKB research published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Adverse consequences of uncontrolled hypertension in China
Mar 14, 2016 12:00 AM
A CKB report, published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that about one-third of Chinese adults have hypertension (ie, high blood pressure levels), but <5% of them had their blood pressure properly controlled, causing substantial burden of premature deaths.
CKB Data available worldwide
Mar 1, 2016 12:00 AM
CKB baseline data is now available to registered researchers from around the world.
Health record COPD diagnoses of good quality.
Feb 18, 2016 12:00 AM
Report published in the International Journal of COPD concludes that COPD diagnoses obtained from electronic health records in China are of good quality and suitable for large population-based studies and do not warrant systematic adjudication of all the reported cases.
Research letter published on Lp-PLA2 loss-of-function variant and risk of vascular diseases in 90,000 Chinese adults
Jan 19, 2016 12:00 AM
CKB finds that genetically determined lower Lp- PLA2 activity appeared to have no substantial causal effects on major vascular diseases.
Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China
Oct 9, 2015 12:01 AM
Two-thirds of the young men in China start to smoke, mostly before age 20. Results of a CKB led study published in The Lancet show that around half of those who start smoking cigarettes as young men will eventually be killed by tobacco, unless they stop permanently.