Association Between Pulse Wave Velocity and Impaired Fasting Glucose in a Chinese Cohort

A retrospective cohort study of 184,291 Chinese adults with normal baseline fasting plasma glucose, conducted by the Rich Healthcare Group. The data includes a median follow-up of 3.0 years, during which 11.28% of participants developed incident impaired fasting glucose. The study, authored by Jintao Jiang, analyzes the relationship between estimated pulse wave velocity and diabetes risk.

Use Cases

• Modeling the risk of impaired fasting glucose based on estimated pulse wave velocity and demographic factors mentioned in the description
• Conducting survival analysis on diabetes onset using the Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression methods described
• Identifying risk thresholds for aortic stiffness in relation to glucose metabolism abnormalities
• Performing subgroup analyses to test the robustness of associations across different population segments

Strengths

• Large cohort size of 184,291 participants provides substantial statistical power
• Multivariable adjustment for gender, BMI, lipids, and behavioral factors as described
• Identifies a specific risk threshold of 8.365 m/s for estimated pulse wave velocity
• Clear hazard ratio of 1.19 per 1 m/s increase in ePWV for developing IFG

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific multi-province Chinese cohort

Provenance

Source

Rich Healthcare Group

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort analysis of clinical data

Time Range

Median follow-up period of 3.0 years

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 04:11:22; freshness should be verified

Geography

Multi-province cohort in China