Numbers (percentages) of participants in eleven transition stages of transition pattern B*.
Abbreviation: T2D, type 2 diabetes; IHD, ischemic heart disease; CMM, cardiometabolic multimorbidity;
Cardiometabolic diseases included type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease and stroke. CMM was defined as the occurrence of at least two of the above-mentioned diseases;
*, transition pattern B was defined as baseline to one of specific cardiometabolic diseases, then to CMM, and subsequently to death.