Table 5. Cumulative diabetes incidence (%) during second follow up according to sex, BMI, tobacco and alcohol consumption, comorbidity, and healthy eating and physical activity indices among blacks and whites.
| Blacks | Whites | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % with diabetesa | N | % with diabetesa | |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 3,795 | 10.1 | 3,353 | 5.0 |
| Female | 7,799 | 11.4 | 5,942 | 4.8 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | ||||
| < 20 | 365 | 5.2 | 389 | 1.0 |
| 20–24.9 | 2,176 | 5.6 | 2,482 | 1.3 |
| 25–29.9 | 3,515 | 9.4 | 3,162 | 3.8 |
| 30–34.9 | 2,659 | 11.7 | 1,787 | 7.4 |
| 35–39.9 | 1,385 | 17.2 | 757 | 9.2 |
| > = 40 | 1,117 | 19.7 | 537 | 15.8 |
| Smoker at FU1 | ||||
| No | 7,777 | 10.7 | 7,073 | 4.8 |
| Yes | 3,700 | 11.5 | 2,162 | 5.1 |
| Alcohol consumption | ||||
| Non-drinker | 5,071 | 11.4 | 3,954 | 6.0 |
| < 1 per day | 3,851 | 10.9 | 3,581 | 4.4 |
| > = 1 per day | 2,479 | 10.2 | 1,584 | 3.5 |
| High cholesterol | ||||
| Yes, with statin | 1,290 | 13.3 | 1,776 | 6.7 |
| Yes, otherwise | 1,900 | 12.5 | 1,871 | 5.2 |
| No | 8,387 | 10.3 | 5,642 | 4.2 |
| Hypertension | ||||
| Yes | 5,801 | 14.2 | 3,630 | 7.6 |
| No | 5,790 | 7.7 | 5,661 | 3.2 |
| Healthy eating index | ||||
| Q1 | 2,659 | 11.5 | 2,247 | 6.3 |
| Q2 | 2,860 | 12.0 | 2,083 | 5.8 |
| Q3 | 2,736 | 10.7 | 2,204 | 4.7 |
| Q4 | 2,585 | 9.6 | 2,478 | 2.9 |
| Total activity MET-hrs | ||||
| Q1 | 2,777 | 9.9 | 2,235 | 4.7 |
| Q2 | 2,746 | 10.6 | 2,326 | 5.2 |
| Q3 | 2,726 | 11.1 | 2,345 | 4.6 |
| Q4 | 3,001 | 12.0 | 2,075 | 5.1 |
a Cases are defined as those who reported ‘YES’ for incident diagnoses of diabetes and ‘YES’ for medications of diabetes at Follow Up 2. All participants reported not having diabetes at baseline and at Follow Up 1.