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. 2023 May 29;44(28):2544–2556. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad260

Table 1.

Summary of available data on individuals with diabetes used in SCORE2-Diabetes risk model derivation

N (%) or mean (SD)
SCID ERFC/UKB CPRD
Participants 136 192 20 517 72 751
Male sex 72 525 (53%) 11 485 (56%) 38 599 (53%)
SCORE2 variables
Age (years) 65 (11) 60 (8) 64 (11)
Current smoker 24 447 (18%) 2353 (12%) 11 423 (21%)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 136 (16) 142 (17) 136 (16)
Total cholesterol (mmol/L) 4.3 (1.0) 4.7 (1.1) 4.4 (1.0)
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L) 1.3 (0.4) 1.2 (0.3) 1.2 (0.4)
SCORE2-Diabetes additional variables
Diabetes age of diagnosis (per 5-years) 58 (12) 53 (9) 58 (11)
HbA1c (mmol/mol) 58 (17) 55 (20) 52 (19)
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m2) 74 (20) 88 (17) 76 (17)
Follow-up [years, median (5th–95th percentile)] 10.9 (6.8, 11.0) 11.3 (2.8, 13.6) 6.0 (0.8, 11.0)
Cardiovascular events 34 595 1864 7247
Non-cardiovascular deaths 21 062 1953 5211

SCID, Scottish Care Information—Diabetes; ERFC, Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration; UKB, UK Biobank; CPRD, Clinical Practice Research Datalink; eGFR, estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, calculated using the CKD-EPI 2009 equations; HbA1c, glycated haemoglobin, in International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) units.

Table shows summary statistics for datasets before imputation (which was carried out during analysis). A summary of missing data, by data source and variable, is provided in Supplementary data online, Table S2.