Table 3. Total muscle-strengthening and conditioning activities and risk of type 2 diabetes restricted to women who did not engage in aerobic activity.

Study	n	Person-Years	Cases	RR per 60 Min/Week
Nurses' Health Study I	17,429	93,616	859	0.85 (0.77–0.95)
Nurses' Health Study II	11,535	67,877	466	0.78 (0.64–0.95)
Pooled results a	—	—	—	0.84 (0.76–0.92)

Data are relative risks (95% CI). Multivariable model included age (months), smoking (never, past, or current), alcohol consumption (0, 1–5, >5 g/d), coffee intake (0, <1, 1–3, 3–5, >5 cups/day), race (white, non-white), family history of diabetes, post menopausal hormone use (never, past, current), intake of total energy, trans fat, polyunsaturated fat to saturated fat ratio, cereal fiber, wholegrain, and glycemic load (all dietary factors in quintiles), oral contraceptive use (only NHSII: never, past, current), menopausal status (only NHSII: pre, post).

^a Combined using fixed effect pooling of estimates from multivariable adjusted models.