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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2021 Oct 12;65(1):88–100. doi: 10.1007/s00125-021-05573-6

Table 1.

Baseline Pathway to Prevention participant characteristics by autoantibody status

Characteristic Single-Aab+ (n=2652) Multiple-Aab+ (n=3794) p value
Age at initial screening, years
  Mean±SD 21.1±14.0 14.5±11.2 <0.001a
  Median (Q1, Q3) 15.0 (9.4, 35.8) 10.9 (7.0, 16.3)
Length of followup, years
  Mean±SD 1.7±2.7 1.9±2.5 <0.001a
  Median (Q1, Q3) 0.0 (0.0, 2.5) 0.9 (0.0, 2.8)
Sex, n (%) <0.001b
  Female 1525 (57.6) 1799 (47.6)
  Male 1125 (42.5) 1983 (52.4)
  Missing 2 (0.1) 12 (0.3)
Race, n (%) <0.001b
  Hispanic 307 (11.6) 316 (8.3)
  White/NH 2018 (76.1) 3067 (80.8)
  African American 75 (2.8) 129 (3.4)
  Other 127 (4.8) 127 (3.4)
  Unknown or not reported 125 (4.7) 155 (4.1)
Relationship to proband, n (%) <0.001b
  Offspring 487 (18.4) 715 (18.9)
  Parent 731 (27.6) 439 (11.6)
  Sibling 1131 (42.7) 2258 (59.5)
  Other 256 (9.7) 248 (6.5)
  Unknown or not reported 47 (1.8) 134 (3.5)
High-risk HLA (either DR3 or DR4), n (%) <0.001b
  Neither 649 (25.4) 582 (16.0)
  Either or both 1910 (74.6) 3048 (84.0)
High-risk HLA (either DR3 or DR4), n (%) <0.001b
  Neither 649 (25.4) 582 (16.0)
  One 1590 (62.1) 2157 (59.4)
  Both 320 (12.5) 891 (24.6)
Autoantibody type, n (%) <0.001b
  GAD65 1890 (71.3) 3365 (88.7)
  mIAA 659 (24.9) 1928 (50.8)
  IA-2 93 (3.5) 2016 (53.2)
  ICA 9 (0.4) 2518 (68.3)
  ZnT8 1 (0.1) 1654 (57.4)
BMI-for-age z score, mean±SD 0.6±1.2 0.4±1.1 <0.001c
Mean C-peptide AUC, mean±SD 6.6±3.0 5.3±2.6 <0.001c
Peak C-peptide (ng/ml), mean±SD 9.0±4.2 7.2±3.5 <0.001c
Fasting glucose (mmol/l), mean±SD 5.1±0.6 5.1±0.9 0.419c
Fasting insulin (pmol/l), mean±SD 56.9±47.2 49.3±38.2 <0.001c
HOMA2-S
  Mean±SD 173.9±253.4 193.5±274.3 <0.001a
  Median (Q1, Q3) 120.3 (75.8, 191.3) 136.2 (86.8, 212.7)
HOMA2-B
  Mean±SD 91.1±44.5 83.9±38.9 <0.001a
  Median (Q1, Q3) 81.3 (61.8, 110.1) 76.2 (58.5, 100.7)
a

p values reflect comparisons between groups using Wilcoxon rank-sum test

b

p values reflect comparisons between groups using χ2 test

c

p values reflect comparisons between groups using two-sample t test NH, non-Hispanic; Q1, quartile 1; Q3, quartile 3