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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Obes Metab. 2021 Jan 29;23(4):1030–1040. doi: 10.1111/dom.14309

Table 4.

Diabetes incidence rates associated with lifestyle goal achievement and interactions with diabetes genetic risk.

Genetic Risk Tertiles
All Participants Low Intermediate High Heterogeneity P-value
Weight loss
Incidence Rate (95% CI)
Not Achieved 5.9 (4.7, 7.5) 3.9 (2.5, 6.1) 5.4 (3.7, 7.8) 8.2 (5.9, 11.4)
Achieved 1.3 (0.8, 2.0) 0.8 (0.3, 1.9) 0.6 (0.2, 1.9) 2.1 (1.3, 3.7)
Risk Difference −4.7 (−3.2, −6.1) −3.1 (−1.2, −5.0) −4.7 (−2.6, −6.8) −6.0 (−3.2, −8.9) <0.001
Rate Ratio 0.22 (0.14, 0.34) 0.20 (0.07, 0.56) 0.12 (0.05, 0.38) 0.26 (0.48, 0.14) 0.18
Physical Activity
Incidence Rate (95% CI)
Not Achieved 5.3 (3.8, 7.5) 3.2 (1.7, 6.1) 6.0 (3.5, 10.1) 7.0 (4.3, 11.3)
Achieved 2.9 (2.2, 3.7) 1.8 (1.1, 3.0) 2.3 (1.5, 3.7) 4.2 (2.9, 5.9)
Risk Difference −2.5 (−0.6, −4.3) −1.4 (0.8, −3.6) −3.6 (−0.3, −7.0) −2.8 (0.8, −6.4) 0.02
Rate Ratio 0.56 (0.36, 0.83) 0.56 (0.25. 1.25) 0.4 (0.19, 0.83) 0.59 (0.33, 1.11) 0.62
Diet
Incidence Rate (95% CI)
Not Achieved 3.9 (3.0, 5.1) 3.2 (2.0,5.1) 2.9 (1.8,4.9) 5.1 (3.6,7.4)
Achieved 2.9 (2.1, 3.9) 1.4 (0.7,3.0) 2.8 (1.6, 4.6) 4.2 (2.7,6.5)
Risk Difference −1.1 (0.2, −2.3) −1.7 (−0.0, −3.5) −0.2 (1.9, −2.2) −0.9 (1.6, −3.4) 0.07
Rate Ratio 0.71 (0.50, 1.11) 0.45 (0.20, 1.11) 0.91 (0.45, 2.0) 0.83 (0.48, 1.43) <0.001
All three goals
Incidence Rate (95% CI)
Not Achieved 4.0 (3.2, 5.0) 2.6 (1.7, 4.1) 3.6 (2.5, 5.1) 5.6 (4.1, 7.7)
Achieved 1.1 (0.5, 2.2) 0.8 (0.2, 3.5) 0.5 (0.1, 3.4) 1.7 (0.7, 4.1)
Risk Difference −2.9 (−1.8, −4.1) −1.8 (−0.3, −3.4) −3.1 (−1.5, −4.7) −3.9 (−1.6, −6.2) <0.001
Rate Ratio 0.27 (0.13, 0.56) 0.30 (0.07, 1.43) 0.13 (0.05, 1.0) 0.31 (0.13, 0.77) 0.92

Test for heterogeneity reflects: test for directional trend across genetic risk tertiles for risk difference models; and lifestyle*genetic risk interaction term for rate ratio models

events/100 person-years