Cancer incidence and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with human insulin: a cohort study in Shanghai.

AIM: The aim was to investigate the association between human insulin and cancer incidence and mortality in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS: We recruited 8,774 insulin-naïve diabetes patients from the Shanghai Diabetes Registry (SDR). The follow-up rate was 85.4%. All subjects were di...

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Main Authors: Yunjuan Gu, Chunfang Wang, Ying Zheng, Xuhong Hou, Yifei Mo, Weihui Yu, Lei Zhang, Cheng Hu, Hairong Nan, Lei Chen, Jie Li, Yuxiang Liu, Zhezhou Huang, Ming Han, Yuqian Bao, Weijian Zhong, Weiping Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3538755?pdf=render