Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics by sex and educational attainment
| Men | Women | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Attainment | Educational Attainment | |||||||
| Characteristic | All (N=7,066) | Low (N=2,219) | Medium (N=2,391) | High (N=2,456) | All (N=7,362) | Low (N=2,448) | Medium (N=2,442) | High (N=2,472) |
| Diabetes cases (N) | 681 | 232 | 244 | 205 | 496 | 185 | 164 | 147 |
| Diabetes incidence (per 1000 person-years) | 10.24 | 11.18 | 10.89 | 8.79 | 7.04 | 7.98 | 6.94 | 6.21 |
| (9.48, 11.01) | (9.75, 12.61) | (9.53, 12.25) | (7.60, 9.99) | (6.42, 7.65) | (6.83, 9.12) | (5.88, 8.00) | (5.21, 7.21) | |
| Age at survey (mean, years) | 55.41 | 55.26 | 55.34 | 55.63 | 54.51 | 54.4 | 54.39 | 54.73 |
| (55.19, 55.63) | (54.87, 55.65) | (54.96, 55.72) | (55.25, 56.00) | (54.30, 54.71) | (54.03,54.76) | (54.03,54.75) | (54.37,55.09) | |
| Baseline BMI, kg/m2 | ||||||||
| Mean | 27.45 | 27.69 | 27.64 | 27.04 | 27.16 | 27.88 | 27.17 | 26.44 |
| (27.36,27.54) | (27.53,27.86) | (27.49,27.80) | (26.89,27.18) | (27.05,27.27) | (27.67,28.08) | (26.98,27.36) | (26.26,26.62) | |
| Mean of those with a BMI≥25.0 | 28.99 | 29.20 | 29.12 | 28.65 | 29.86 | 30.32 | 29.83 | 29.35 |
| (28.90, 29.08) | (29.04,29.37) | (28.97,29.27) | (28.51,28.80) | (29.74,29.98) | (30.11,30.53) | (29.62,30.03) | (29.15,29.55) | |
| BMI≥25.0, (%) | 73.11 | 74.81 | 74.82 | 69.91 | 62.27 | 67.65 | 62.24 | 56.96 |
| (72.08,74.14) | (73.00,76.62) | (73.08,76.56) | (68.10,71.73) | (61.16,63.37) | (65.79,69.50) | (60.32,64.17) | (55.01,58.91) | |
| BMI≥30.0, (%) | 21.65 | 24.16 | 23.96 | 17.14 | 24.07 | 29.82 | 23.87 | 18.57 |
| (20.69,22.61) | (22.37,25.94) | (22.25,25.68) | (15.65,18.63) | (23.09,25.05) | (28.01,31.63) | (22.18,25.57) | (17.03,20.10) | |
| Baseline Waist Circumference (WC) | ||||||||
| Mean, (cm) | 97.32 | 97.68 | 97.74 | 96.59 | 85.98 | 87.65 | 85.71 | 84.6 |
| (97.07,97.58) | (97.21,98.15) | (97.30,98.18) | (96.18,97.00) | (85.70,86.26) | (87.13,88.16) | (85.23,86.18) | (84.13,85.07) | |
| WC≥94.0 cm (men) or ≥80.0 (women), (%) | 61.19 | 61.06 | 62.9 | 59.65 | 65.08 | 69.32 | 64.91 | 61.04 |
| (60.06,62.33) | (59.03,63.09) | (60.97,64.84) | (57.71,61.59) | (63.99,66.17) | (67.49,71.15) | (63.01,66.80) | (59.12,62.97) | |
| Baseline Cigarette Smoking, (%) | ||||||||
| Current | 28.22 | 32.85 | 28.36 | 23.90 | 17.96 | 22.14 | 17.77 | 14.00 |
| (27.17,29.27) | (30.90,34.81) | (26.55,30.16) | (22.21,25.59) | (17.08,18.83) | (20.50,23.79) | (16.26,19.29) | (12.63,15.36) | |
| Former | 39.68 | 38.98 | 41.61 | 38.44 | 22.56 | 21.32 | 21.83 | 24.51 |
| (38.54,40.82) | (36.95,41.01) | (39.64,43.59) | (36.51,40.36) | (21.61,23.52) | (19.70,22.95) | (20.19,23.47) | (22.82,26.21) | |
| Never | 32.10 | 28.17 | 30.03 | 37.66 | 59.48 | 56.54 | 60.40 | 61.49 |
| (31.01,33.19) | (26.29,30.04) | (28.19,31.87) | (35.75,39.58) | (58.36,60.60) | (54.57,58.50) | (58.46,62.34) | (59.57,63.41) | |
| Diabetes cases (N) | 681 | 232 | 244 | 205 | 496 | 185 | 164 | 147 |
| Person-years | 66,477 | 20,758 | 22,407 | 23,312 | 70,503 | 23,194 | 23,641 | 23,668 |
Note: 95% confidence interval shown in parentheses. Data are from FINRISK 1997, 2002, 2007 with follow-up through 2011. Ages 40–74 years at time of survey. Educational attainment based on cohort-specific tertiles.