Table 2

Associations between T1D prevalence rate and I_bs and newborn life expectancy (years) at birth respectively in the WHO regions

	I_bs		Newborn life expectancy
WHO region	Pearson’s r	Significance	Pearson’s r	Significance
AFRO (n=21)	0.343	0.128	0.214	0.351
AMRO (n=28)	0.145	0.461	0.173	0.380
EMRO (n=15)	0.783	0.001	0.541	0.037
EURO (n=38)	0.502	0.001	0.610	<0.001
SEARO (n=5)	−0.479	0.415	−0.436	0.463
WPRO (n=11)	0.345	0.298	0.330	0.322

I_bs, Biological State Index; T1D, type 1 diabetes.