Table 3.

The identified latent states of prediabetic subject resulted from latent Markov analysis.

Group	Obesity indices	Levels of diabetes tendency (without covariates)			Levels of diabetes tendency (with covariates)
		Moderate (State1)	Low (State2)	High (State3)	Moderate (State1)	Low (State2)	High (State3)
Total (n = 1228)	State size	0.45	0.29	0.26	0.45	0.29	0.26
	Mean of BMI (kg/m2)	29.37	25.48	34.98	29.38	25.44	34.98
	Mean of WC (cm)	106.33	99.55	117.58	106.36	99.42	117.53
	Mean of HC (cm)	93.68	82.41	102.87	93.61	82.45	102.48
	Mean of WHR	0.88	0.83	0.87	0.88	0.83	0.88
	Mean of WHtR	0.58	0.52	0.65	0.58	0.52	0.65
Males (n = 324)	State size	0.45	0.31	0.24	0.45	0.32	0.23
	Mean of BMI (kg/m2)	28.41	25.22	32.57	28.45	25.26	32.26
	Mean of WC (cm)	104.59	99.35	111.87	0.94	0.89	0.97
	Mean of HC (cm)	98.67	88.78	108.04	98.77	88.87	108.13
	Mean of WHR	0.94	0.89	0.97	0.94	0.89	0.97
	Mean of WHtR	0.58	0.52	0.64	0.58	0.52	0.64
Females (n = 904)	State size	0.43	0.31	0.26	0.43	0.32	0.25
	Mean of BMI (kg/m2)	30.09	25.63	35.65	30.12	25.66	35.70
	Mean of WC (cm)	107.96	99.77	118.56	108.01	99.84	118.64
	Mean of HC (cm)	91.31	81.12	102.52	91.40	81.16	102.61
	Mean of WHR	0.85	0.81	0.87	0.85	0.81	0.87
	Mean of WHtR	0.58	0.52	0.66	0.59	0.52	0.66

The covariates include: age, gender, marital status, educational level, smoking, physical activity, SBP, DBP, and lipid profile (CHOL, TG, HDL, and LDL).