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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2009 Oct 29;374(9702):1677–1686. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61457-4

Table 1.

Number of enrolled participants, number eligible, and percentage enrolled by sex, ethnic and racial origin, diabetes status, and treatment group

All groups
n/N (%)
ILS group
n/N (%)
Metformin group
n/N (%)
Placebo group
n/N (%)
Sex

Men 888/1014 (88%) 291/333 (87%) 307/353 (87%) 290/328 (88%)
Women 1878/2136 (88%) 619/713 (87%) 617/696 (89%) 642/727 (88%)
    With GDM* 290/344 (84%) 93/114 (82%) 97/110 (88%) 100/120 (83%)
    No GDM 1587/1791 (89%) 526/599 (88%) 519/585 (89%) 542/607 (89%)

Ethnic and racial origin

White 1506/1712 (88%) 490/560 (88%) 515/582 (88%) 501/570 (88%)
African-American 559/632 (88%) 176/199 (88%) 191/219 (87%) 192/214 (90%)
Hispanic 424/495 (86%) 138/171 (81%) 141/160 (88%) 145/164 (88%)
American Indian 153/169 (91%) 53/59 (90%) 46/52 (88%) 54/58 (93%)
Asian American or Pacific Islander 124/142 (87%) 53/57 (93%) 31/36 (86%) 40/49 (82%)

Diabetes

No 1999/2310 (87%) 739/855 (86%) 652/752 (87%) 608/703 (86%)
Yes 767/840 (91%) 171/191 (90%) 272/297 (92%) 324/352 (92%)

Data are number of participants enrolled/number eligible (%).

ILS=intensive lifestyle intervention.

Eligible participants are all those randomly assigned to DPP minus those who died or withdrew consent.

*

GDM (history of gestational diabetes) classification was missing for one woman in the metformin group.

Not diabetic or had diabetes confirmed according to DPP protocol as of Sept 1, 2002. Enrolment was higher in participants with diabetes than in non-diabetic participants, both overall and in the metformin and placebo treatment groups.