Educational attainment and diabetes risk: triangulation evidence from UK Biobank prospective cohort, NHANES 2011-2018, and cross-trait genomics analyses - Takeaways - MDSpire

Educational attainment and diabetes risk: triangulation evidence from UK Biobank prospective cohort, NHANES 2011-2018, and cross-trait genomics analyses

  • By

  • Guannan Geng

  • Shizheng Qiu

  • Zhishuai Zhang

  • Xinru Liu

  • Xin Wang

  • Yang Hu

  • Hongyu Kuang

  • Jiahui Zhang

  • June 26, 2026

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    Higher educational attainment is associated with lower odds of prevalent and incident type 2 diabetes (T2D) in UK Biobank analyses.

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    In NHANES, individuals with a college degree or higher showed lower prevalent T2D odds compared to those without higher qualifications.

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    Adiposity, smoking, alcohol use, and cardiometabolic biomarkers attenuated the association between education and T2D.

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    Genetically predicted educational attainment inversely correlated with body mass index (BMI) and T2D risk.

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    The study integrated observational, cross-sectional, and genetic analyses to explore the education-T2D association and its pathways.

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Educational attainment and diabetes risk: triangulation evidence from UK Biobank prospective cohort, NHANES 2011-2018, and cross-trait genomics analyses

  • by Guannan Geng, Shizheng Qiu, Zhishuai Zhang, Xinru Liu, Xin Wang, Yang Hu, Hongyu Kuang, Jiahui Zhang

  • June 26, 2026

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