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. 2008 Aug;31(8):1582–1584. doi: 10.2337/dc08-0025

Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants aged 50–89 years and the 10-, 20-, and 30-year risk of CVD by diabetes status

Nondiabetic
Diabetic
Nondiabetic
Diabetic
Women Men
Baseline characteristics and follow-up information
    Original cohort
        Normal weight 1225 (48.0) 73 (33.2) 694 (35.6) 35 (17.5)
        Overweight 880 (34.5) 69 (31.4) 998 (51.3) 113 (56.5)
        Obese 448 (17.6) 78 (35.5) 256 (13.1) 52 (26.0)
        New CVD events 1424 159 1267 146
        Person-years follow-up 63765 2778 39685 2248
    Offspring
        Normal weight 931 (49.6) 40 (19.8) 399 (24.5) 39 (15.2)
        Overweight 593 (31.6) 63 (31.2) 858 (52.6) 121 (47.3)
        Obese 353 (18.8) 99 (49.0) 373 (22.9) 96 (37.5)
        New CVD events 244 52 387 102
        Person-years follow-up 28229 2027 23408 2573
Lifetime risk CVD*
    Original cohort
        10-year 6.9 (5.8–7.9) 21.6 (9.5–33.6) 15.0 (13.3–16.8) 28.2 (15.4–41.1)
        20-year 21.7 (20.1–23.4) 50.0 (39.2–60.9) 36.0 (33.8–38.2) 57.7 (47.7–67.7)
        30-year 38.0 (36.1–39.9) 67.1 (58.3–76.0) 54.8 (52.5–57.0) 78.0 (71.5–84.4)
    Offspring
        10-year 3.9 (3.0–4.9) 15.9 (7.2–24.6) 8.7 (7.1–10.2) 13.3 (7.1–19.5)
        20-year 11.0 (9.2–12.7) 29.3 (19.8–38.7) 23.7 (21.3–26.2) 43.8 (36.1–51.6)
        30-year 26.0 (22.6–29.4) 48.6 (38.5–58.7) 37.8 (34.3–41.3) 61.6 (53.9–69.3)
Lifetime risk of CVD stratified by BMI category*
    10-year
        Normal weight 6.2 (4.7–7.6) 9.4 (0.0–22.1) 11.9 (9.3–14.5) 33.2 (6.3–60.0)
        Overweight 6.8 (5.0–8.6) 16.5 (0.0–34.1) 15.1 (12.7–17.5) 21.5 (5.9–37.0)
        Obese 9.3 (6.3–12.3) 41.9 (14.2–69.6) 22.8 (17.0–28.5) 47.6 (12.1–83.2)
    20-year
        Normal weight 18.8 (16.6–21.1) 33.7 (16.2–51.2) 30.9 (27.4–34.4) 54.0 (30.1–77.9)
        Overweight 21.6 (18.9–24.4) 52.2 (34.6–69.9) 37.3 (34.2–40.3) 57.9 (45.4–70.4)
        Obese 30.0 (25.6–34.3) 65.6 (47.1–84.1) 44.4 (37.9–50.8) 65.4 (40.2–90.6)
    30-year
        Normal weight 34.3 (31.6–37.0) 54.8 (39.0–70.5) 49.2 (45.4–52.9) 78.6 (63.7–93.4)
        Overweight 38.7 (35.5–41.9) 69.3 (55.9–82.7) 55.5 (52.4–58.6) 74.0 (64.8–83.3)
        Obese 46.7 (42.1–51.4) 78.8 (66.4–91.2) 66.8 (60.7–73.0) 86.9 (75.8–97.9)

Data aren, n (%), and odds ratio (95% CI).

*

Expressed as percent developing CVD, adjusted for the competing risk of death. For original cohort and offspring among participants aged 50–89 years, 95% CIs are stratified by BMI category for the offspring cohort only.

In the original cohort, 0.08% of participants were lost to follow-up, and in the offspring cohort, 0.5% of participants were lost to follow-up. In the original cohort, 10.3% of CVD events were fatal and in the offspring cohort, 5.4% were fatal.