Table 2.
Cumulative incidence of type 2 diabetes by sex and life-course trajectories of weight.
| Total | Women | Men | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample size | Cases | Cumulative incidence (%) | Sample size | Cases | Cumulative incidence (%) | Sample size | Cases | Cumulative incidence (%) | |
| Stable normal weight | 2952 | 196 | 6.64 | 2144 | 111 | 5.18 | 808 | 85 | 10.52 |
| Stable overweight | 454 | 104 | 22.91 | 313 | 62 | 19.81 | 141 | 42 | 29.78 |
| Lean increasing weight | 1270 | 143 | 11.26 | 824 | 84 | 10.19 | 446 | 59 | 13.23 |
| Overweight from early adulthood | 1476 | 383 | 25.95 | 822 | 184 | 22.38 | 654 | 199 | 30.42 |
| Overweight from late adulthood | 986 | 155 | 15.72 | 652 | 95 | 14.57 | 334 | 60 | 17.96 |
| Total | 7138 | 981 | 13.74 | 4755 | 536 | 11.3 | 2383 | 445 | 18.7 |