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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jun 14;170(11):961–969. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.109

TABLE 3.

Relative risk (95% CI) of type 2 diabetes risk according to brown rice in the HPFS, NHS I, and NHS II.

Brown rice intake (serving/time)
P for trend
<1/mo 1/mo-1/wk ≥2/wk
HPFS
Number of cases 1142 1296 210
Person-year 283230 358085 61606
Model 1* 1.0 0.84 (0.77, 0.91) 0.77 (0.67, 0.90) 0.0002
Model 2 1.0 0.95 (0.88, 1.03) 0.96 (0.83, 1.12) 0.53
Model 3 1.0 0.96 (0.89, 1.04) 0.96 (0.82, 1.12) 0.51
NHS I
Number of cases 3127 2167 206
Person-year 785713 554634 64026
Model 1* 1.0 0.78 (0.74, 0.83) 0.63 (0.54, 0.72) <0.0001
Model 2 1.0 0.92 (0.87, 0.97) 0.83 (0.72, 0.96) 0.001
Model 3 1.0 0.92 (0.87, 0.98) 0.83 (0.72, 0.96) 0.003
NHS II
Number of cases 1271 941 147
Person-year 580179 537974 92750
Model 1* 1.0 0.71 (0.65, 0.78) 0.62 (0.52, 0.73) <0.0001
Model 2 1.0 0.92 (0.85, 1.01) 0.88 (0.74, 1.05) 0.10
Model 3 1.0 0.95 (0.87, 1.04) 0.89 (0.75, 1.07) 0.17
Pooled
Fixed effects model 1.0 0.94 (0.90, 0.98) 0.89 (0.81, 0.97) 0.005
Pheterogeneity - 0.77 0.45 0.21
*

Age-adjusted.

Adjusted for the same set of covariates for model 2 in Table 2.

Based on model 2, model 3 was further adjusted for total energy (kcal/day) and intake of red meat, fruits and vegetables, coffee (in quintiles), and white rice (see Table 2 for intake categories).