Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 1 Study population, total, by age, sex, education and body mass index ¹

From: Health-related quality of life for pre-diabetic states and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study in Västerbotten Sweden

	Healthy		Pre-Diabetes						Diabetes
Characteristics	NGT		IFG		IGT		IFG & IGT		T2D		Total
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Total number	43 586	100.0	5 629	100.0	2 440	100.0	1 232	100.0	2 995	100.0	55 882	100.0
Age in years
40	15 652	35.9	1 339	23.8	418	17.1	168	13.6	350	11.7	17 927	32.1
50	14 707	33.7	1 846	32.8	706	28.9	358	29.1	798	26.6	18 415	33.0
60	13 227	30.4	2 444	43.4	1 316	53.9	706	57.3	1 847	61.7	19 540	35.0
Sex
Male	21 076	48.4	2 973	52.8	1 050	43.0	638	51.8	1 844	61.6	27 581	49.4
Female	22 510	51.7	2 656	47.2	1 390	57.0	594	48.2	1 151	38.4	28 301	50.6
Education
Basic²	5 655	13.0	1 052	18.7	508	20.8	279	22.7	753	25.1	8 247	14.8
Middle³	22 606	51.9	2 938	52.2	1 275	52.3	654	53.1	1 568	52.4	29 041	52.0
High⁴	15 053	34.5	1 596	28.4	634	26.0	286	23.2	639	21.3	18 208	32.6
Missing	272	0.6	43	0.8	23	0.9	13	1.1	35	1.2	386	0.7
Body mass index, BMI ⁵
Underweight, <18.5	524	1.2	45	0.8	31	1.3	1	0.1	14	0.5	615	1.1
Normal, 18.5 - 24.9	18 917	43.4	1 735	30.8	688	28.2	221	17.9	462	15.4	22 023	39.4
Overweight, 25.0 – 29.9	17 669	40.5	2 420	43.0	1 070	43.9	521	42.3	1 173	39.2	22 853	40.9
Obesity, ≥30.0	6 293	14.4	1 403	24.9	637	26.1	486	39.5	1 320	44.1	10 139	18.1
Missing	183	0.5	26	0.5	14	0.6	3	0.2	26	0.9	252	0.5

¹Chi-square test was used to test for dependencies between glucose tolerance groups and age, sex, education level and body mass index respectively. All comparisons were significant (p < 0.001).
²“compulsory school” or “less than 10 years of education in school”.
³“10-12 years of education in school”.
⁴“university” or “education of more than 12 years in school”.
⁵BMI = [weight in kg]/[height in m]².

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