Fig. 2: Risks for incidence of infective endocarditis according to weight change.

Adjusted hazard ratios with 95% confidence intervals are presented after adjusting for covariates (adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, income, smoking, drinking, regular exercise, hypertension, dyslipidemia, chronic kidney disease, fasting blood glucose, insulin use, diabetes mellitus duration, and use of oral hypoglycemic agents). Weight changes of −5 to ≤5% were adopted as the reference group.