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Principal Component Regression Analysis Of Nutrition Factors And Physical Activities With Diabetes, Ke-Sheng Wang, Ying Lu, Xin Xie, Shaoqing Gong, Chun Xu, Zhanxin Sha

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The associations of nutrition factors and physical activities with adult diabetes are inconsistent; while most of these factors are inter correlated. The aims of this study are to overcome the disturbance of the multicollinearity of the risk factors and examine the associations of these factors with diabetes using the principal component analysis (PCA) and regression analysis with principal component scores (PCS). Totally, 659 adults with diabetes and 2827 non-diabetic were selected from the 2012 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 4, Cycle 2). PCA was utilized to deal with multicollinearity of the risk factors. Weighted univariate and multiple logistic regression …