Fig. 1

Cumulative hazard rates of type 2 diabetes according to categories of muscle strength and categories of genetic risk of type 2 diabetes. Note: Cox regression model with categories of muscle strength as the exposure and incorporating age as the underlying time scale were adjusted for sex, Townsend Deprivation Index, employment status, tobacco smoking status, alcohol drinking status, red meat intake, fish intake, physical activity, polygenic risk score for T2D, genotype array type and the first twenty principal components. Cox regression model with categories of genetic risk of T2D as the exposure and incorporating age as the underlying time scale were adjusted for sex, genotype array type and the first twenty principal components. Abbreviations: T2D, type 2 diabetes