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In the Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Study, the combined diet-and-exercise lifestyle-intervention group delayed the onset of type 2 diabetes by a median of 3.96 years compared with controls (95% CI 1.25–6.67; p=0.0042).

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Verbatim match to peer-reviewed Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2019 publication (Gong et al.), corroborated by PubMed, ScienceDirect, and an earlier SSRN preprint. No contradicting figures found. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]

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