Table 3.

Characteristics of ARIC participants included in candidate SNP analyses

	visit 1 without prevalent diabetes	visit 1 with prevalent diabetes	visit 1 combined sample*
n	8372	761	9133
age (years)	54.1 (5.7)	56.2 (5.6)	54.3 (5.7)
% male	46.4	52.8	46.9
BMI (mg/kg/m2)	26.7 (4.6)	30.4 (5.5)	27.0 (4.8)
fasting glucose	5.47 (.50)	9.24 (3.42)	5.79 (1.51)
fasting glucose with those on medication excluded†		8.37 (2.78)	5.64 (1.07)

^*this column contains all individuals in the “visit 1 without prevalent diabetes” column, and the “visit 1 with prevalent diabetes” column, combined

^†users of glucose-lowering medication excluded as described in the methods section; n excluded= 242