Fig. 1

Transitions from baseline to cancer, CVD, T2D, and subsequent cancer-cardiometabolic multimorbidity. Cancer refers to first malignant tumours at any site excl. non-melanoma skin cancer. Deaths were censored and not modelled as a separate outcome. State-specific number of events is reported in boxes, and transition-specific number of events and incidence rates per 1000 person-years (within brackets) are reported on arrows. CVD cardiovascular disease, T2D type 2 diabetes