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Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk

Association Between Serum Ferritin, Hemoglobin, Iron Intake, and Diabetes in Adults in Jiangsu, China

  1. Zumin Shi, MD, MPHIL12,
  2. Xiaoshu Hu, MD1,
  3. Baojun Yuan, MD1,
  4. Xiaoqun Pan, MD1,
  5. Haakon E. Meyer, MD, PHD23 and
  6. Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen, PHD2
  1. 1Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China
  2. 2General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  3. 3Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
  1. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Zumin Shi, Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 172 Jiangsu Rd., Nanjing 210009, P.R. China. E-mail: zumins{at}vip.sina.com
Diabetes Care 2006 Aug; 29(8): 1878-1883. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc06-0327
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OBJECTIVE—To investigate the association between iron status, iron intake, and diabetes among Chinese adults.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS—This cross-sectional household survey was carried out in 2002 in Jiangsu Province, China. The sample contained 2,849 men and women aged ≥20 years with a response rate of 89.0%. Iron intake was assessed by food weighing plus consecutive individual 3-day food records. Fasting plasma glucose (FPG), serum ferritin, and hemoglobin were measured.

RESULTS—The prevalence of anemia was 18.3% in men and 31.5% in women. Mean hemoglobin and serum ferritin increased across groups with increasing FPG. The prevalence of anemia among women was 15.0% in individuals with FPG >7.0 mmol/l compared with 32.6% in individuals with FPG <5.6 mmol/l. There was a similar, however not significant, trend among men. In women, after adjusting for known risk factors, the odds ratio (OR) of diabetes was 2.15 (95% CI 1.03–4.51) for subjects in the upper quartile of hemoglobin compared with the rest, and the corresponding OR for the upper quartile of serum ferritin was 3.79 (1.72–8.36). Iron intake was positively associated with diabetes in women; fourth quartile intake of iron yielded an OR of 5.53 (1.47–20.44) compared with the first quartile in the multivariate analyses. In men, similar trends were suggested, although they were not statistically significant.

CONCLUSIONS—Iron status and iron intake was independently associated with risk of diabetes in Chinese women but not in men.

  • FPG, fasting plasma glucose
  • HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen

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  • A table elsewhere in this issue shows conventional and Système International (SI) units and conversion factors for many substances.

    • Accepted May 13, 2006.
    • Received February 9, 2006.
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Zumin Shi, Xiaoshu Hu, Baojun Yuan, Xiaoqun Pan, Haakon E. Meyer, Gerd Holmboe-Ottesen
Diabetes Care Aug 2006, 29 (8) 1878-1883; DOI: 10.2337/dc06-0327
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