Table 3.

Prospective associations between baseline TyG with follow-up incident arthritis in Charls

	Model 1	P	Model 2	P	Model 3	P
Q1	ref		ref		ref
Q2	1.20 (0.88, 1.62)	0.245	1.20 (0.88, 1.63)	0.249	1.20 (0.88, 1.63)	0.242
Q3	1.18 (0.87, 1.61)	0.276	1.17 (0.86, 1.59)	0.321	1.18 (0.86, 1.61)	0.307
Q4	1.41 (1.05, 1.90)	0.022	1.40 (1.03, 1.90)	0.031	1.39 (1.01, 1.91)	0.044
P for trend	0.030		0.046		0.063

Note: Model 1 was crude model. Model 2 was adjusted for age, gender, education level, location, marital status and BMI. Model 3 was further for smoking status, drinking status, sleep time, diabetes and hypertension