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.
News Archive
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.
CKB Data Access System Launched
Sep 30, 2015 12:00 AM
The development of a Data Access System means that all bona fide researchers will be able to apply to use the CKB resource for health related research.
Men in China Face Increasing Tobacco-Related Cancer Risks
Sep 1, 2015 12:00 AM
A new CKB paper published in the journal Cancer assesses the emerging cancer risks associated with tobacco smoking.
Regular consumption of spicy foods linked to lower risk of death
Aug 5, 2015 12:00 AM
A recent analysis of CKB data published in the British Medical Journal examines the association between consumption of spicy foods as part of a daily diet and the total risk and causes of death.