Figure 1

A schematic used for screening and inclusion of the study sample. A total of 29,639 disease-free and healthy individuals were recruited between 2008 and 2010, and 13,140 individuals had biochemistry measurements collected. Of the 8,475 adults aged ≥18 years, 287 participants had missing data on BP and/or laboratory tests, and as result were excluded. The final sample size was 8,188, which consisted of 2,340 individuals with both normotension and normoglycemia, 897 individuals with coexisting prehypertension and prediabetes, and 160 individuals with both hypertension and diabetes. Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; FBG, fasting blood glucose; PreHTN, prehypertension; PreDM, prediabetes; HTN, hypertension; DM, diabetes mellitus.