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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: BJOG. 2014 Jun 20;122(3):420–428. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12930

Table 2. First trimester coffee and tea consumption and adjusted risk ratios (95% confidence intervals) for gestational diabetes mellitus in the Danish National Birth Cohort, 1996-2002.

Overall (n=71,239) Stratified by Smoking Status
Non-Smokers (n=52,629) Smokers (n=18,610)
Cups/ d GDM Casesa (%) aRRb 95% CI Pc GDM Casesa (%) aRRd 95% CI Pc GDM Casesa (%) aRRd 95% CI Pc
Coffee .16 .05 .91
 0 500 (1.27) 1.00 Referent 389 (1.22) 1.00 Referent 111 (1.50) 1.00 Referent
 ½ – 3 280 (1.24) 0.97 0.84, 1.13 196 (1.21) 0.97 0.81, 1.15 84 (1.35) 0.99 0.75, 1.32
 4 – 7 90 (1.29) 0.81 0.64, 1.02 41 (1.12) 0.76 0.55, 1.05 49 (1.48) 0.86 0.61, 1.22
 ≥8 42 (1.76) 0.89 0.64, 1.25 19 (2.54) 1.45 0.92, 2.30 23 (1.41) 0.69 0.44, 1.09
Tea .31 .24 .79
 0 381 (1.46) 1.00 Referent 249 (1.41) 1.00 Referent 132 (1.58) 1.00 Referent
 ½ – 3 376 (1.17) 0.91 0.79, 1.05 296 (1.17) 0.94 0.79, 1.11 80 (1.16) 0.81 0.62, 1.07
 4 – 7 118 (1.19) 0.88 0.72, 1.08 77 (1.02) 0.78 0.60, 1.01 41 (1.74) 1.16 0.82, 1.64
 ≥8 37 (1.20) 0.77 0.55, 1.08 23 (1.10) 0.75 0.49, 1.14 14 (1.40) 0.81 0.47, 1.40

Abbreviations: aRR, adjusted risk ratio; CI, confidence interval; GDM, gestational diabetes mellitus.

a

GDM cases identified from Discharge Register or self-reported on either DNBC interview (n=912).

b

Model adjusted for coffee or tea consumption (categorical), as appropriate, age (categorical), socio-occupational status (categorical), parity (categorical), prepregnancy body mass index (categorical), smoking (categorical) and cola intake (categorical).

c

Represents P for linear trend.

d

Model adjusted for coffee or tea consumption (categorical), as appropriate, age (categorical), socio-occupational status (categorical), parity (categorical), prepregnancy body mass index (categorical), and cola intake (categorical).