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Table 4 Relative risks with 95% confidence intervals for the associations between the results of the chair-stand test (two categories), presence of obesity and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

From: Lower body muscle strength, dynapenic obesity and risk of type 2 diabetes –longitudinal results on the chair-stand test from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

BMI

Time for CST-5

N

n (%)a

Relative risks (95% CI)

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

≥ 30 kg/m2

> 15 s

1228

198 (16.1%)

3.27 (2.85–3.75)

3.28 (2.86–3.77)

2.56 (2.22–2.95)

≥ 30 kg/m2

≤ 15 s

5646

764 (13.5%)

2.75 (2.53–2.99)

2.75 (2.53–2.99)

2.45 (2.25–2.67)

<  30 kg/m2

> 15 s

4223

317 (7.5%)

1.52 (1.35–1.71)

1.49 (1.33–1.68)

1.27 (1.12–1.43)

<  30 kg/m2

≤ 15 s

28,435

1401 (4.9%)

1

1

1

  1. Model 1: crude
  2. Model 2: adjusted for age and sex
  3. Model 3: adjusted for age, sex, physical activity, number of chronic diseases, education, country
  4. CST-5 Five repetition chair-stand test
  5. aNumber of persons (%) with incident type 2 diabetes
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