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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jul 5;58(2):140–146. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.03.025

Table 3.

Demographic characteristics of participants with IFG who did and did not developed diabetes mellitus during the follow up in MESA

Variables Developed Diabetes Mellitus N= 273(mean ± SD) Did Not Develop Diabetes mellitus N= 600(mean ± SD) P value

Age (years) 62.1± 10.0 65.0± 9.6 <0.01

Male Gender (%) 50.6 59.8 0.01

Race/ethnicity (%) 0.08
Caucasian 28.1 32.5
Chinese 11.4 16.0
African American 33.0 27.8
Hispanics 27.5 23.7

Systolic BP (mmHg) 131.9 ± 19.2 131.5 ±21.0 0.80

Current/former cigarette smoking(%) 52.8 46.7 0.50

BMI(Kg/m2) 31.7 ± 6.1 29.3 ± 5.1 <0.001

Cholesterol(mg/dl)
 Total 192.2 ± 37.2 196.0 ± 33.8 0.13
 LDL 115.6 ± 31.8 119.9 ± 30.3 0.06
 HDL 46.3 ± 11.9 47.7 ± 13.1 0.15
Triglycerides 154.5 ± 97.5 143. 0 ± 86.4 0.08

Framingham Risk Score (%) 9.6 ± 7.9 10.6 ± 8.6 0.09