Association of estimated small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with diabetes mellitus: a large-scale multicenter retrospective cohort study

Table 2 The rate of incident diabetes

sdLDL-C	Participants (n)	Diabetes events (n)	Cumulative incidence (95% CI) (%)	Per 1000 person-year
Overall	118,080	2737	2.32 (2.23–2.40)	7.48
Q1	29,518	198	0.67 (0.58–0.76)	2.14
Q2	29,521	479	1.62 (1.48–1.77)	5.23
Q3	29,519	786	2.66 (2.48–2.85)	8.65
Q4	29,522	1274	4.32 (4.08–4.55)	13.97
P for trend			< 0.001	< 0.001

sdLDL-C: estimated small dense low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; CI, confidence interval

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