Distribution of risk factors for incident diabetes in older people – Hefei cohort study, China.

§the participant reported their level of difficulty in questions of ADL scale. The valid response was ‘no difficulty alone’ (score 0), ‘manages alone with difficulty (score 1) cannot do alone (score 2). The scale consists of 14 items: having a bath or all-over wash, washing hands and face, putting on shoes and stockings/socks, doing up buttons and zips, dressing yourself other than the above, getting to and using the WC, getting in and out of bed, feeding self, shaving (men) or doing hair (women), cutting your own toenails, getting up and down steps, getting around the house, going out of doors alone and taking medicine.