Fig. 2

Kaplan‒Meier curves of the cumulative incidence of type 2 diabetes across age subgroups and age-specific relative risks of diabetes with separate contributions from chronic inflammation, atherogenic dyslipidemia, and their interaction. RERI: Relative excess risk due to interaction. For the analysis of RERI, the baseline category was low CumCRP (< 3 mg/L) with low CumAIP (< − 0.0699). Multi-variable Cox model was adjusted for sex, age, education, smoking status, drinking status, physical exercise, family history of diabetes, hypertension degrees, TC hypertension, eGFR antihypertensives, and lipid-lowering agents