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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2010 Dec;39(6):529–536. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2010.09.007

Table 3.

Hazard ratios (95% CI) for the association of sexual abuse in childhood and/or adolescence with risk of incident Type 2 diabetes in adulthood, Nurses Health Study 2

Casesa Person-Years Adjusted for age Adjusted for age, race, somatotype at age 5 years, parental education, and parental diabetes at age <50 years Adjusted for age, race, somatotype at age 5 years, parental education, parental diabetes at age <50 years, and adult BMI, smoking and alcohol use
All women Without child/teen physical abuseb With child/teen physical abusec All women Without child/teen physical abuseb With child/teen physical abusec
None 1207
690,559
1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Sexual touching 507
230,432
1.22
1.10, 1.35
1.16
1.05, 1.29
1.08
0.91, 1.28
1.19
1.04, 1.37
1.03
0.93, 1.15
0.97
0.81, 1.15
1.09
0.95, 1.26
Forced sex once 152
60,318
1.45
1.22, 1.71
1.34
1.13, 1.59
0.88
0.60, 1.28
1.48
1.22, 1.80
1.10
0.92, 1.31
0.77
0.53, 1.13
1.22
0.99, 1.49
Forced sex >once 197
56,114
1.96
1.68, 2.28
1.69
1.45, 1.97
1.56
1.09, 2.22
1.69
1.41, 2.01
1.28
1.09, 1.49
0.99
0.68, 1.43
1.35
1.13, 1.62
a

Data are not presented for 462 women missing data on sexual abuse (451 noncases and 11 cases, less than 1% of the cohort).

b

Among women without physical abuse, there were 828 cases of diabetes

c

Among women with physical abuse, there were 1243 cases of diabetes.