Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population of men aged 21–89 years, according to diabetes status

Characteristics	Diabetes-free n = 765,483	Prevalent diabetes n = 74,756	Incident diabetes n = 193,835
Age (years), mean ± SD	41.6 ± 15.9	62.6 ± 12.8	56.1 ± 14.5
Ethnic origina (%)
Ashkenazi Jews	27.05	33.13	31.74
Sephardic Jews	25.47	29.38	27.94
Israeli Jews	24.45	16.80	18.23
Israeli Arabs	19.12	14.95	16.70
Yemenite Jews	2.54	4.93	4.01
Ethiopian and Central African Jews	1.37	0.81	1.38
SES (%)
Low	40.57	40.85	42.31
Medium	38.24	39.82	37.91
High	17.43	16.54	17.00
Missing	3.77	2.78	2.78
Smoking (%)
Never smoker + missing	57.73	58.87	49.48
Past + current smoker	42.27	41.13	50.52

^aAccording to country of birth or mother’s country of birth