After excluding participants with evidence of preexisting
serious chronic disease at exam 1 or missing values on the predictor,
outcome or covariate variables, there were 7802 participants
with 861 new verified diagnoses of diabetes during 98,543 personyears
of follow up. Mean follow-up timewas 13.3 years for censored
individuals. The number of participants who provided an updated
chocolate consumption variable at exam 3 was 6614.