Table 1.

Characteristics of matched individuals with incident type 2 diabetes and never (non) diabetes cohorts, Salford Integrated Database (1995–2012)

	New diabetes	Never diabetes	p Value
Total	10 464	31 020
Gender
Men	5938 (56.7)	17 650 (56.9)
Women	4526 (43.3)	13 370 (43.1)	0.979*
Year of birth			0.881†
Mean	1944	1944
Minimum	1916	1916
Maximum	1977	1977
Mean age at index date (SD)	67.47 (12.3)	67.41 (12.3)	0.881†
Mean follow-up time (SD)	8.62 (5.1)	8.71 (5.1)	0.135†
Smoking
Never	4398 (42.0)	13 100 (42.2)
Ever	6066 (58.0)	17 920 (57.8)	0.840*
Closest to index date
Mean BMI (SD)	31.34 (6.3)	27.23 (5.0)	<0.001†
Comorbidities
Coronary heart disease
Yes	2588 (24.7)	4352 (14.0)
No	7876 (75.3)	26 668 (86.0)	<0.001*
Ever cancer
Yes	1317 (12.6)	3992 (12.9)
No	9147 (87.4)	27 028 (87.1)	<0.001*

Values in parentheses are percentages unless otherwise stated.

Matched on gender, year of birth, and smoking. Age at assigned date of matched case.

*McNemar tests.

†Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

BMI, body mass index.