Clustering of multiple health risk behaviors and its association with diabetes in a Southern Chinese adult population: a cross-sectional study

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Introduction

Methods

Study population

Measurements

Behaviors variables

Physiological measures and definitions

Covariates

Statistical analysis

Results

Sample characteristics

LCA and class patterns

Associations of latent class with diabetes

Discussion

Main findings of this study

Clustering of health risk behaviors

Association between behavioral clusters and diabetes

Limitations

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Latent analysis of HRBs clustering

Items of health risk behaviors and covariates.

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9025/supp-1

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Guanrong Zhang and Caibing Luo conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Ying Cui and Yifan Lu conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Yang Yang conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (No. GDREC2018483H).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are available in a Supplementary File.

Funding

This work was supported by the Medical Research Foundation Project of Guangdong Province (grant No. A2019266). There was no additional external funding received for this study. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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