Table 1

Characteristics of the study participants

	(Unit)	All	Amount of HbA1c increase in the next year*
	(Unit)	All	<0	0–0.1	0.2–0.3	0.4–0.5	0.6–0.7	0.8–0.9	1.0-
N		42 908	13 459	15 761	9945	2898	536	158	151
Ggender†	%	53.10	53.51	52.20	52.64	54.07	60.63	71.52	74.83
Age	–	55.05	55.00	54.78	55.33	55.58	56.32	54.79	55.53
Height	Cm	161.71	161.64	161.77	161.60	161.66	162.57	163.35	164.68
Drink†	%	46.00	46.92	45.66	44.64	46.52	49.72	56.41	55.78
Smoke†	%	45.82	46.04	44.87	45.68	47.13	53.79	60.65	67.35
Weight	kg	60.08	59.99	59.86	60.00	60.94	61.82	65.14	68.13
BMI	–	22.87	22.85	22.77	22.87	23.21	23.32	24.28	24.96
Body fat	%	24.19	24.19	24.10	24.22	24.58	24.30	24.53	24.92
GTP	U/L	36.70	36.12	36.02	36.96	38.80	44.47	51.11	58.94
HDL-C	mg/dL	57.64	58.10	57.85	57.28	56.70	55.49	52.78	49.96
LDL-C	mg/dL	124.31	124.69	124.20	124.25	124.06	122.05	119.15	123.44
FBG	mg/dL	98.42	98.43	97.51	98.36	100.35	104.96	113.41	120.47
HbA1c	%	5.03	5.13	5.00	4.96	4.97	5.12	5.44	5.66
S-BP	mm Hg	124.79	125.28	124.00	124.50	126.56	127.90	129.91	130.65
D-BP	mm Hg	77.31	77.57	76.94	77.23	77.93	78.21	79.77	80.36

The definition of each variable’s abbreviation can be seen in table 2. Other characteristics can also be found in online supplemental table S2.
*The lower limit of HbA1c increase is −2.0% and the upper limit of HbA1c increase is +5.6%.
†Gender: prevalence of male, drink: prevalence of drinking more than twice a week, smoke: prevalence of current smoking habit.
BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FBG, fasting blood glucose; GTP, glutamyl transpeptidase; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure.