In 1986, 33 clinics in Da Qing, China, were randomly assigned to control or to diet, exercise, or combined diet-and-exercise interventions for 577 adults with impaired glucose tolerance.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed sources including the original 1997 Diabetes Care study, the Lancet 20-year follow-up, and the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 30-year outcome study, all consistent on details. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- 30-year results of the Da Qing Diabetes Prevention ... (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213858719300932 (corroboration)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9096977/ (corroboration)
- https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(08)60766-7/abstract (corroboration)