Table 2.

Cumulative incidence of diabetes and CVD events in IGT subjects with and without hypertension over 23 years

	Non‐hypertension group	Hypertension group
Diabetes incidence
n (%)	196 (72.3%)	240 (80.8%)
Person‐years	2713	2557
Cases per 1000 person‐years (95% CI)	72.2 (62.1‐82.4)	93.9 (82.0‐105.7)
HR, P‐value†	HR = 1.26 (1.04‐1.54), P = 0.02
CVD events (including stroke and myocardial infarction)
n (%)	80 (31.5%)	133 (46.2%)
Person‐years	4878	4799
Cases per 1000 person‐years (95% CI)	16.6 (13.0‐20.2)	27.7 (23.0‐32.4)
HR, P‐value†	HR = 1.35 (1.01‐1.81), P = 0.04
Stroke
n (%)	64 (25.2%)	109 (37.9%)
Person‐years	4949	4864
Cases per 1000 person‐years (95% CI)	12.9 (9.8‐16.1)	22.4 (18.2‐26.6)
HR, P‐value†	HR = 1.43 (1.03‐1.98), P = 0.03
Myocardial infarction
n (%)	16 (6.3%)	24 (8.3%)
Person‐years	5243	5503
Cases per 1000 person‐years (95% CI)	3.1 (1.6‐4.6)	4.4 (2.6‐6.1)
HR, P‐value†	HR = 1.07 (0.55‐2.08), P = 0.84

^† Compared with non‐hypertension group, age and sex adjusted.

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; CVD, cardiovascular disease; HR, hazard ratio; IGT, impaired glucose tolerance.