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Stress-hyperglycemia ratio, its longitudinal trajectories, and stress-metabolism synergy in predicting cardiometabolic multimorbidity: A nationwide prospective cohort study.

This nationwide prospective cohort study investigated longitudinal stress-hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) trajectories and their synergy with metabolic markers in predicting cardiometabolic multimorbidity among aging Chinese adults. The combined SHR-estimated glucose disposal rate index achieved the strongest discriminative performance (concordance index 0.70), with accelerated biological aging, glycemic dyscontrol, and atherogenic dyslipidemia identified as key mediating pathways.

This nationwide prospective cohort study investigated longitudinal stress-hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) trajectories and their synergy with metabolic markers in predicting cardiometabolic multimorbidity among aging Chinese adults. The combined SHR-estimated glucose disposal rate index achieved the strongest discriminative performance (concordance index 0.70), with accelerated biological aging, glycemic dyscontrol, and atherogenic dyslipidemia identified as key mediating pathways.

What the study was

Study design
Cohort study
Category
Public Health
Maturity
Validated
Journal
The Journal of international medical research

Why it surfaced

Relevant Aging, longevity, and population health study (promising preliminary signal) meets standard-priority threshold.

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