Table 3. Cox proportional hazard ratios (95% confidence interval) for incident diabetes by ethnicity, age, sex and components of the metabolic syndrome^*.

Age (years)	Model adjusted for:	Sex	sex and triglycerides	sex and BMI	sex and HDL-C	sex and SBP
20–49	Jews (reference), n = 11244	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	Arabs n = 12145	2.04 (1.74–2.40)	1.90 (1.62–2.22)	1.64 (1.40–1.92)	1.86 (1.59–2.18)	1.90 (1.62–2.22)
50–59	Jews (reference) n = 1533	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
	Arabs n = 1079	1.56 (1.27–1.92)	1.49 (1.21–1.84)	1.35 (1.09–1.66)	1.43 (1.16–1.76)	1.50 (1.21–1.84)
60 and up	Jews (reference) n = 1906 Arabs n = 1459	1.0 1.56 (1.34–1.81)	1.0 1.52 (1.31–1.77)	1.0 1.40 (1.21–1.64)	1.0 1.51 (1.30–1.76)	1.0 1.54 (1.32–1.79)

* Table includes data on subjects not diagnosed with diabetes until 1/1/2008.

All analyses were adjusted to the number of visits during 2007.

Abbreviations: BMI: body mass index; HDL-C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP: systolic blood pressure