Table 1.
Main Characteristics of Participants Without Diabetes at Baseline, PAGE Study, 2008–2012
| Characteristic | Study Population |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEC (1993–1996) (n = 19,529) |
CALiCo: ARIC (1987–1989) (n = 11,114) |
EAGLE-NHANES III (1991–1994) (n = 6,347) |
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| % | Median (IQRa) | % | Median (IQR) | % | Median (IQR) | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 51.7 | 44.6 | 43.6 | |||
| Female | 48.3 | 55.4 | 56.4 | |||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| African-American | 18.6 | 22.1 | 30.0 | |||
| Asian-American | 28.2 | |||||
| Latino | 25.9 | 28.2 | ||||
| Pacific Islander | 9.6 | |||||
| European-American | 17.8 | 77.9 | 36.9 | |||
| Other | 4.9 | |||||
| Age, years | 68 (62–74) | 54 (49–59) | 36 (23–56) | |||
| Body mass indexb | 26.1 (23.6–29.2) | 26.4 (23.7–29.8) | 25.7 (22.3–29.8) | |||
| Daily macronutrient intake | ||||||
| Total energy, kcal | 1,965 (1,468–2,635) | 1,542 (1,202–1,969) | 1,974 (1,433–2,659) | |||
| % of calories from carbohydrate | 52.3 (46.5–58.4) | 49.0 (42.8–54.9) | 51.0 (43.7–58.4) | |||
| % of calories from protein | 14.6 (12.9–16.4) | 18.0 (15.0–20.2) | 14.7 (12.0–17.7) | |||
| % of calories from fat | 30.2 (25.2–34.8) | 33.0 (28.5–37.3) | 33.3 (27.0–39.3) | |||
| % of calories from ethanol | 0.19 (0–2.74) | 0.0 (0–3.2) | 0.0 (0–0) | |||
Abbreviations: ARIC, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities; CALiCo, Causal Variants Across the Life Course; EAGLE, Epidemiologic Architecture for Genes Linked to Environment; IQR, interquartile range; MEC, Multiethnic Cohort; NHANES III, Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; PAGE, Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology.
a 25th–75th percentiles.
b Weight (kg)/height (m)2.