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. 2015 Jun 11;38(8):1467–1472. doi: 10.2337/dc15-0186

Table 2.

Association between average sleep duration and subsequent incident diabetes, defined using all available glycemic data and participant report of doctor-diagnosed diabetes, using four data cycles

Confounder adjustments
Average sleep duration among those with no change in sleep duration
No. events
n*
Age and sex Age, sex, and ethnic group Age, sex, ethnic group, and employment grade Age, sex, ethnic group, employment grade, and BMI at the beginning and end of each exposure period
OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
≤5.5 h 90 1,303 1.59 (1.22, 2.05) 1.43 (1.10, 1.85) 1.35 (1.04, 1.76) 1.25 (0.96, 1.63)
6.0–6.5 h 253 5,957 0.98 (0.81, 1.19) 0.96 (0.79, 1.16) 0.94 (0.78, 1.14) 0.88 (0.73, 1.07)
7 h 204 4,875 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
7.5–8.0 h 179 4,183 1.00 (0.82, 1.23) 0.98 (0.80, 1.21) 0.98 (0.80, 1.21) 0.98 (0.80, 1.21)
≥8.5 h 18 361 1.11 (0.67, 1.82) 1.00 (0.61, 1.66) 1.01 (0.61, 1.67) 0.94 (0.57, 1.56)
P value for quadratic model 0.002 0.017 0.049 0.23

*Number of person-observations.

†ORs compared with those who had 7 h sleep on both occasions.