Table 4.

The impact of adopting sufficiency and equality ethical standards of health equity on prevention and inequalities in diabetes.

	N (weighted)	Weight Loss (%)	10-year DPoRT Risk	BMI after intervention	Achieved ethical standard (%)	Number of diabetes cases averted
Health Sufficiency	Criteria met: 18% weight loss
No intervention	18,558,245	0	6.3	25
Intervention	3,835,766	12	15.8	28	71%	401,932
Health Equality	30% weight loss
No intervention	12,524,240	0	4.2	23
Intervention	9,869,772	27	6.3	22	27%	1,029,645
Medium Risk	6,034,006	25	3.9	21	43%	404,365
High Risk	3,835,767	30	9.8	22	2%	625,279
Social-Health Sufficiency	Criteria met: 18% weight loss
No intervention	19,352,481	0	7.1	25
Intervention	3,041,531	12	16.0	28	69%	322,143
Less than high school	702,008	13	17.1	28	64%	73,924
High school graduation	1,067,227	12	16.0	28	69%	117,445
Trades/certificate below Bachelor's	1,272,295	12	15.4	29	73%	130,773
Social-Health Equality	30% weight loss
No intervention	15,588,658	0	6.0	24
Intervention	6,805,354	20	7.9	24	65%	701,341
Less than high school	1,187,576	24	9.5	23	47%	141,219
High school graduation	2,149,944	21	8.1	24	62%	240,988
Trades/certificate below Bachelor's	3,467,835	18	7.2	25	74%	319,136

Health sufficiency: equity is ‘achieved’ when diabetes risk in the entire population is reduced below a threshold (i.e., 16.5%), beyond which remaining inequalities are not considered ethically important to eliminate.

Health equality: equity is ‘achieved’ when average diabetes risk is equalized to that observed in the lowest diabetes risk group.

Social-health sufficiency: equity is ‘achieved’ when diabetes risk co-varying with lower educational attainment is reduced below a threshold (i.e., 16.5%), beyond which remaining inequalities are not considered ethically important to eliminate.

Social-health equality: equity is ‘achieved’ when diabetes risk among those with lower educational attainment is equalized to that observed with higher educational attainment.