Table 5.

Baseline characteristics of participants of the MULTI sTUdy Diabetes rEsearch Consortium by diabetes status, n=135 156

	Total	T2DM diagnosis	No T2DM diagnosis	P values
N	135 156*	33 421	100 015
Age, mean (SD)	54.3 (19.2)	64.2 (8.6)	51.4 (20.4)	<0.0001
Sex, %				<0.0001
Female	44.6	45.2	44.5
Male	55.4	54.8	55.5
Missing (n)	65
Race, %				<0.0001
White	67.4	58.3	70.5
Black	27.8	31.9	26.4
Hispanic	2.8	5.1	2.0
Other	2.0	4.7	1.1
Missing (n)	4654
Smoking, %				<0.0001
Yes	48.0	40.4	50.6
No	52.0	59.6	49.4
Missing (n)	4931
BMI category, %				<0.0001
Underweight	6.6	0.2	8.7
Normal	24.2	11.0	28.6
Overweight	35.4	33.0	36.2
Obese	33.9	55.7	26.6
Missing (n)	4436

Categorical variables were compared using χ² tests and continuous variables were compared using the Student’s t-test.

*n=1720 for unknown diabetes status.

BMI, body mass index; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus.