Arterial Stiffness and Obesity as Predictors of Diabetes: Longitudinal Cohort Study

Cancan Cui   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Zhiyuan Wu   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Jia Zheng   ¹ , PhD ;   Jiaqi Chu   ³ , PhD ;   Jiajing Zhu   ¹ , PhD ;   Yitian Qi   ¹ , PhD ;   Zhenming Zhang   ¹ , PhD ;   Zhijia Wang   ¹ , PhD ;   Mengchao Zhang   ¹ , PhD ;   Zhanhao Mo   ¹ , PhD ;   Liangkai Cheng   ¹ , PhD ;   Lei Ding   ¹ , PhD ;   Xiaoping Kang   ⁴ , PhD ;   Lin Liu   ¹ , PhD ;   Te Zhang   ⁵ , PhD

¹ Department of Radiology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin University, Changchun, China

² Centre for Precision Health, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, WA, Australia

³ School of Medical Imaging, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China

⁴ Center of Informatics, Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital, Beijing, China

⁵ Department of Anesthesiology,China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin University, Changchun, China

*these authors contributed equally