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. 2019 Jun 10;62(9):1581–1590. doi: 10.1007/s00125-019-4921-2

Table 3.

Associations between DXA measurements of body fat and incident type 2 diabetes (N = 3028)

DXA measurement Incident type 2 diabetes HR (95% CI)
Women (185 cases) Men (137 cases)
Android fat mass, %a
  Model 1 *1.77 (1.42, 2.22) *1.43 (1.13, 1.81)
  Model 2 *1.42 (1.06, 1.89) *1.44 (1.06, 1.95)
  Model 3 *1.36 (1.02, 1.82) *1.41 (1.04, 1.92)
  Model 4 1.22 (0.91, 1.64) 1.32 (0.96, 1.83)
  Model 5 1.10 (0.83, 1.46) 1.33 (0.96, 1.85)
Gynoid fat mass, %a
  Model 1 1.01 (0.76, 1.35) 1.21 (0.91, 1.59)
  Model 2 *0.56 (0.40, 0.78) 1.03 (0.74, 1.44)
  Model 3 *0.57 (0.41, 0.79) 1.03 (0.74, 1.44)
  Model 4b *0.63 (0.45, 0.89) 1.12 (0.78, 1.59)
  Model 5 0.76 (0.54, 1.07) 1.08 (0.76, 1.55)
Android to gynoid fat ratioa
  Model 1 *1.95 (1.55, 2.46) *1.56 (1.16, 2.11)
  Model 2 *1.73 (1.36, 2.22) *1.49 (1.09, 2.04)
  Model 3 *1.69 (1.32, 2.17) *1.46 (1.06, 1.99)
  Model 4 *1.51 (1.16, 1.97) 1.26 (0.91, 1.76)
  Model 5 1.28 (0.98, 1.67) 1.32 (0.93, 1.88)
Total fat mass, %a
  Model 1 *1.56 (1.17, 2.08) *1.43 (1.11, 1.84)
  Model 2 0.77 (0.53, 1.11) *1.43 (1.00, 2.04)
  Model 3 0.75 (0.52, 1.08) 1.41 (0.98, 2.02)
  Model 4b 0.76 (0.52, 1.13) 1.45 (0.99, 2.12)
  Model 5 0.86 (0.59, 1.26) 1.45 (0.99, 2.12)

HRs are presented per 1 SD increase in the marker

Model 1, adjusted for age and cohort; model 2, additionally adjusted for BMI; model 3, additionally adjusted for systolic BP, treatment for hypertension, smoking and prevalent CVD; model 4, additionally adjusted for HDL-cholesterol, TG and serum lipid-reducing agents; model 5, additionally adjusted for FPG

aMarker is loge transformed

bp value from the interaction test for the difference in HR between women and men <0.05

*p<0.05, by Cox proportional hazards model