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. 2022 Dec 1;22:924. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03647-7

Table 2.

Relative risks with 95% confidence intervals for the associations between the results of the chair-stand test and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Chair-stand test N n (%)c Person years Incidence rates per 1000 person years Relative risks (95% CI)
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Not safea 6587 725 (11.0%) 32,480 22.3 2.18 (1.95–2.43) 2.11 (1.88–2.36) 1.32 (1.17–1.48)
Q1 (≥ 12.01 seconds in men, ≥ 13.5 seconds in women)b 9893 857 (8.7%) 51,310 16.7 1.71 (1.54–1.91) 1.65 (1.48–1.85) 1.23 (1.10–1.37)
Q2 (≥ 10.0, <  12.01 seconds in men; ≥ 10.54, <  13.5 seconds in women)b 10,161 739 (7.3%) 51,953 14.2 1.44 (1.29–1.61) 1.40 (1.25–1.57) 1.19 (1.06–1.33)
Q3 (≥ 8.0, <  10.0 seconds in men; ≥ 8.24, <  10.54 seconds in women)b 9806 595 (6.1%) 53,648 11.1 1.20 (1.07–1.35) 1.19 (1.06–1.33) 1.08 (0.96–1.21)
Q4 (reference) (<  8.0 seconds in men, <  8.24 seconds in women)b 9672 489 (5.1%) 54,256 9.0 1 1 1

Model 1: crude

Model 2: adjusted for age and sex

Model 3: adjusted for age, sex, BMI, physical activity, number of chronic diseases, education, country

CI Confidence interval, Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 Time needed for the CST-5 in seconds in the highest (Q1), second highest (Q2), second lowest (Q3), or lowest quartile (Q4)

aParticipants considered the test as not safe and did not perform the test

bTime in seconds refers to the time needed for 5 sits and stands in the chair-stand test

cCases of incident diabetes