Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of participants in the Hawaii component of the Multiethnic Cohort Study by ethnicity and sex, 1993–2007^a

	Men			Women
	Caucasian	Native Hawaiian	Japanese American	Caucasian	Native Hawaiian	Japanese American
Number of subjects	14,904	4,559	16,513	14,346	5,945	18,646
Diabetes cases (%)	7.2	17.4	16.1	5.0	15.9	12.7
Age (y)
45–54	45.0	50.3	32.7	47.1	53.0	32.3
55–64	27.8	29.3	28.0	26.6	28.1	30.4
65+	27.3	20.4	39.2	26.3	18.9	37.3
BMI (kg/m2)
<22.0	13.5	6.9	18.7	33.6	16.2	43.1
22.0–24.9	33.5	19.6	38.9	28.6	22.2	30.8
25.0–29.9	40.7	44.2	36.7	25.2	33.5	21.4
>=30	12.3	29.3	5.7	12.6	28.1	4.7
Education (y)
<= 12	19.4	48.1	39.4	23.6	52.9	41.5
12–15	28.9	31.7	28.7	34.1	29.9	28.1
>16	51.8	20.2	31.9	42.3	17.2	30.4
Strenuous sport
Never	49.2	48.4	62.4	58.4	61.2	74.1
1/2-1 h/wk	18.3	23.2	17.7	16.5	21.0	12.8
2–3 h/wk	15.0	14.3	10.7	12.8	10.1	8.2
4+ h/wk	17.5	14.1	9.2	12.3	7.7	4.9
Vigorous work
Never	36.5	26.1	44.4	66.0	56.0	80.0
1/2-1 h/wk	26.7	24.6	28.8	19.7	22.2	13.9
2–3 h/wk	16.5	19.7	13.0	8.1	11.5	3.8
4+ h/wk	20.2	29.6	13.9	6.2	10.4	2.3
Moderate activity
≤ 1 h/wk	19.0	23.6	22.2	10.8	15.4	17.5
2–3 h/wk	27.2	30.5	25.2	24.3	31.4	30.1
4–6 h/wk	21.8	21.3	23.8	24.5	23.2	23.2
7–10 h/wk	14.9	10.7	13.1	17.5	13.3	13.4
11+ h/wk	16.9	13.9	15.7	22.9	16.8	15.8

^aIn percent