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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Diabetes. 2020 Jan 29;22(1):22–30. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12981

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics for SEARCH (N=2,283) and YDR (N=2,331) youth by diabetes type, incident years 2006, 08, 12 for SEARCH and 2006–2012 for YDR

Variables Type 1 diabetes
p-value Type 2 diabetes
p-value
SEARCH^
YDR
SEARCH^
YDR
2006–2012 n=1,899 2006–2012 n=2,104 2006–2012 n=384 2006–2012 n=227
Age at diagnosis (yrs), mean (SD) 10.1 (4.3) 10.5 (4.9) <0.001 14.4 (2.7) 16.1 (2.8) <0.001
Age at baseline visit (yrs), n (%) <0.001 <0.001
0–4 198 (10.4) 296 (14.1) 0 0 (0.0)
5–9 548 (28.9) 612 (29.1) 7 (1.8) 8 (3.5)
10–14 786 (41.4) 698 (33.2) 157 (40.9) 48 (21.1)
15–19 354 (18.6) 443 (21.1) 199 (51.8) 151 (66.5)
20+ 13 (0.7) 55 (2.6) 21 (5.5) 20 (8.8)
Duration of diabetes (mos), mean (SD) 10.3 (7.4) 6.2 (9.7) <0.001 13.3 (8.2) 7.0 (10.5) <0.001
Height (cm), mean (SD) 146.6 (23.0) 144.5 (24.3) <0.001 166.0 (11.4) 156.9 (18.0) <0.001
Weight (kg), mean (SD) 45.8 (21.6) 32.9 (16.6) <0.001 98.4 (27.1) 68.6 (21.5) <0.001
BMI z-score (WHO), mean (SD) 0.69 (1.23) −0.54 (1.65) <0.001 3.17 (1.15) 1.65 (2.10) <0.001
BMI Catergories, n (%) <0.001 <0.001
Underweight 11 (0.6) 319 (15.2) 0 (0.0) 9 (4.0)
Normal 1144 (60.2) 1280 (60.8) 10 (2.6) 46 (20.3)
Overweight 400 (21.1) 159 (7.6) 25 (6.5) 49 (21.6)
Obese 231 (12.2) 90 (4.3) 303 (78.9) 83 (36.6)
Missing 113 (6.0) 256 (12.2) 46 (12.0) 40 (17.6)
Blood pressure, mean (SD) <0.001 <0.001
SBP 99.7 (11.8) 105.5 (15.0) 115.9 (12.6) 119.2 (14.5)
DBP 63.3 (9.6) 69.0 (10.0) 72.0 (10.1) 78.3 (9.3)
Hypertension*, n (%) 53 (3.0) 171 (14.2) <0.001 59 (15.7) 46 (23.5) <0.001
A1c, mean (SD) 7.8 (1.7) 11.0 (2.9) <0.001 7.2 (2.1) 9.9 (2.8) <0.001
A1c Categories, n (%) <0.001 <0.001
Less than 7.5 797 (42.0) 151 (7.2) 260 (67.7) 41 (18.1)
7.5–9.0 620 (32.6) 214 (10.2) 50 (13.0) 29 (12.8)
Greater than 9.0 355 (18.7) 959 (45.6) 64 (16.7) 98 (43.2)
Missing 127 (6.7) 780 (37.1) 10 (2.6) 59 (26.0)
^

a subset of SEARCH participants diagnoised in 2006, 2008, and 2012 who completed a baseline visit (a SEARCH baseline research visit)

*

SEARCH T1D (n=1795), T2D (n=377); YDR T1D (n=1204), T2D (n=196)