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Acknowledgements
This study would not have been possible without funding from the Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University. We appreciate the field work done by the staff of Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Wuning, Jiangxi province, Chaohu, Anhui Province, and Jing’an District of Shanghai. We thank the staff of the Diabetic Research Institute, at Shanghai Hospital No. 6 for conducting the laboratory assays.
We especially thank Prof. Chuming Chen for facilitating the initial implementation of this study and Drs. Gonghuan Yang, Youxue Liu, Wenjuan Wang Jiemin Ma, and Dongyan Xia for their support in study design, sample selection, data collection, and data entry.
We also want to thank Drs. Robert Lawrence, Lawrence Appel, Laura Caulfield, and Eliseo Guallar from Johns Hopkins University for their thoughtful comments.