Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of participants (n 316) and non-responders (n 175) in the SLIMMER intervention*
| Intervention group (n 155) | Control group (n 161) | Non-responders (n 175) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean or % | sd | Mean or % | sd | Mean | sd | |
| n (male/female)† | 81/74 | 80/81 | 87/87 | |||
| Age (years) | 60·7 | 6·4 | 61·0 | 6·5 | 60·9 | 7·0 |
| Education (%)‡,§ | ||||||
| Low | 54·0 | 51·0 | 52·0 | |||
| Middle | 26·0 | 21·0 | 27·0 | |||
| High | 20·0 | 28·0 | 21·0 | |||
| Perceived health (%)|| | ||||||
| Poor/fair | 21·0 | 21·0 | 10·0 | |||
| Good | 68·0 | 70·0 | 74·0 | |||
| Very good/excellent | 11·0 | 9·0 | 16·0 | |||
| Ethnicity (%) | ||||||
| Dutch | 88·0 | 89·0 | ||||
| Western non-Dutch | 9·0 | 8·0 | ||||
| Non-Western non-Dutch | 3·0 | 3·0 | ||||
| Employment status (%) | ||||||
| No paid job | 54·0 | 52·0 | ||||
| Part-time job (<32 h/week) | 18·0 | 22·0 | ||||
| Full-time job (≥32 h/week) | 28·0 | 26·0 | ||||
| Family history of diabetes (%) | ||||||
| No | 32·0 | 42·0 | ||||
| First degree | 49·0 | 45·0 | ||||
| Second degree | 19·0 | 13·0 | ||||
| BMI (kg/m2)¶ | 30·4 | 4·7 | 30·0 | 4·8 | ||
| Fasting insulin (pmol/l) | 93·3 | 64·3 | 82·5 | 50·2 | ||
*
Data are mean and sd or %.
†
n 174 for non-responders.
‡
n 155 for intervention group, n 160 for control group and n 96 for non-responders.
§
Education level was based on the highest level of education completed and divided in three categories: low (primary school or less, lower vocational education), middle (medium vocational education, high school) and high (higher vocational education, university).
||
n 115 for non-responders.
¶
n 154 for intervention group and n 161 for control group.