Table 2.
N of events, person-years, and age-adjusted event rates (AAER) per 10,000 person-years and incidence rate ratios (IRR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) by sex and type of event.
| Events | Men | Women | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without T2D | With T2D | Without T2D | With T2D | |||||||||||
|
N of events (fatal) |
Person-years | AAER |
N of events (fatal) |
Person-years | AAER | IRR (95% CI) |
N of events (fatal) |
Person-years | AAER |
N of events (fatal) |
Person-years | AAER | IRR (95% CI) |
|
| Stroke | 1454 (95) | 475,145.4 | 37.28 | 517 (36) | 38,600.9 | 74.70 | 1.86 (1.68–2.06) | 1301 (115) | 506,105.0 | 30.10 | 341 (22) | 30,187.2 | 61.73 | 1.81 (1.61–2.04) |
| Myocardial infarction |
1590 (217) | 474,943.0 | 39.04 | 459 (60) | 38,716.2 | 78.02 | 1.78 (1.60–2.00) | 713 (128) | 506,799.3 | 16.13 | 241 (37) | 30,328.7 | 47.58 | 2.58 (2.22–3.00) |
| Heart failure | 816 (14) | 475,993.8 | 21.47 | 481 (10) | 38,702.4 | 63.71 | 2.78 (2.48–3.12) | 718 (17) | 506,803.8 | 17.10 | 306 (10) | 30,262.9 | 48.83 | 2.59 (2.27–2.97) |
Age-adjusted event rates were calculated using Italian population at December 31st, 2011, stratified by sex.
IRR = calculated using Poisson model, adjusted for age and foreign status. People without type 2 diabetes were used as reference.